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US 2026/0160418 A1Published application
Portable biometric lighter
OwnerJohn Gibsoninventor
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Abstract
A portable biometric lighter device (100) generally involving a control unit (210), a biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint sensor (140), wherein the biometric sensor is configured to scan a biometric data of a user and is operably coupled to the control unit (210), and an ignition element, wherein the ignition element is activated by the control unit (210) upon a match of the scanned biometric data of the user and a biometric data of an authorized user that is stored in a memory device.
Claims20
A portable biometric lighter device, comprising:
- a body;
- a battery power source housed within the body;
- a control unit housed within the body, operably coupled to an igniter and to the battery power source;
- a memory device housed within the body, coupled to the control unit and configured to store biometric data including fingerprints of authorized users;
- a biometric sensor operably connected to the control unit and configured to scan biometric data of a user;
- an actuator movably coupled to the body and configured to activate the biometric sensor when the actuator is moved from a deactivated position to an activated position;
- a light source operably coupled to the control unit and configured to provide status indications of the biometric sensor;
- and
- wherein the igniter is configured to ignite a flammable power source in response to being activated by the control unit upon a determination by the control unit that the biometric data of the user scanned by the biometric sensor matches the biometric data of any of the authorized users stored in the memory device.
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A method for operating a portable biometric lighter device, comprising the steps of:
- storing biometric data, including fingerprints of authorized users, in a memory device housed within a body of the portable biometric lighter device and coupled to a control unit housed within the body, wherein the control unit is additionally coupled to a battery power source housed within the body, an igniter, an actuator movably coupled to the body, a biometric sensor, and a light source;
- moving, by a user, of the actuator from a deactivated position to an activated position;
- in response to moving the actuator from the deactivated position to the activated position, activating by the control unit of the biometric sensor configured to scan biometric data of a user;
- scanning biometric data of a user using the biometric sensor;
- determining whether the biometric data of the user scanned by the biometric sensor matches the biometric data of any of the authorized users stored in the memory device;
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- in response to the determining that the fingerprint of the user scanned by the biometric sensor matches the biometric data of any of the authorized users stored in the memory device, providing a matched user status indication using a light source operably coupled to the control unit and activating the igniter to ignite a flammable power source.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.