ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,358, issued on Jan. 20.
"System, method and device for age authenticated vaping" was invented by Joseph William Pruitt (Athens, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal vaping device ("PVD") for age authenticated vaping is configured to read the thumbprint of an active user of the vaping device and, essentially simultaneously, perform a bioimpedance analysis ("BIA") to measure a bioimpedance signature of the active user. The combination of the user's thumbprint with the bioimpedance signature defines a unique identity data combination for the user that can be compared to stored identity data combinations of authorized users. If ...