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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2017
Applicant:
John Gibson Enterprises, Inc., San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Inventors:
John Gibson, Los Osos, CA (US);
Adam Olcott, Los Osos, CA (US);
Mark Zand, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Chan Leung, Hong Kong, CN;
Assignee:
John Gibson Enterprises, Inc., San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); F23Q 2/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00013 (2013.01); F23Q 2/164 (2013.01);
Abstract
A portable biometric lighter device () generally involving a control unit (), a biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint sensor (), wherein the biometric sensor is configured to scan a biometric data of a user and is operably coupled to the control unit (), and an ignition element, wherein the ignition element is activated by the control unit () 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.