Age verification with registered cartridges for an aerosol delivery device
AssigneeRAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
InventorSean Daugherty
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Abstract
An electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS”) device may include aerosol delivery devices such as smoking articles that produce aerosol. The device may include a cartridge for the aerosol production. The cartridge is assigned a unique identifier that is approved for a user or that user's device such that the cartridge and/or the device only operate when approved. The unique identifiers help with user identification, tracking, and age verification.
Claims20
An aerosol delivery system comprising:
- a consumable, wherein the consumable is one of a plurality of consumables that are each assigned a unique identifier;
- and
- an aerosol delivery device configured to:
- couple the consumable with a body of the aerosol delivery device;
- obtain the unique identifier of the consumable from the consumable after being coupled with the body of the aerosol delivery device;
- receive, as a communication, an authentication confirmation associated with the consumable based on:
- (a) the aerosol delivery device being associated with a user of the aerosol delivery device in a stored user profile for the user, and
- (b) an authentication of the consumable to the user, the authentication being based on a comparison of the unique identifier of the consumable with an approved list of consumables purchased by that user in a transaction that included an age verification;
- and
- permit generation of an aerosol from the consumable for inhalation by the user based on receipt of the authentication confirmation for the consumable.
A method for registering and authenticating a consumable for use with an aerosol delivery device, the method comprising:
- receiving a unique identifier associated with the consumable in response to an age verified purchase transaction of the consumable;
- adding the unique identifier for the consumable to an approved list of consumables for the user in a user profile, the aerosol delivery device being indicated in the user profile;
- receiving a request, in response to the consumable being installed in the aerosol delivery device, to compare the unique identifier of the consumable with the approved list of consumables to authenticate the consumable;
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- sending an authentication confirmation based on the comparison of the unique identifier of the consumable with the approved list of consumables to permit generation of an aerosol from the consumable for inhalation by the user from the aerosol delivery device.
An aerosol delivery device comprising:
- a body configured to couple with a consumable;
- and
- a communications interface;
- wherein the aerosol delivery device is configured to:
- obtain a unique identifier of the consumable from the consumable after the consumable is coupled to the body of the aerosol delivery device;
- receive, as a communication via the communications interface, an authentication confirmation associated with the consumable based on:
- (a) the aerosol delivery device being associated with a user of the aerosol delivery device in a stored user profile for the user, and
- (b) an authentication of the consumable to the user, the authentication being based on a comparison of the unique identifier of the consumable with an approved list of consumables purchased by that user in a transaction that included an age verification;
- and
- permit generation of an aerosol from the consumable for inhalation by the user based on receipt of the authentication confirmation for the consumable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.