ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,005, issued on May 13.
"Portable biometric lighter" was invented by John Gibson (Loves Park, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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."
The patent was ...