US 12,332,618 B2
Vaporizer controls
Adam Bowen, San Mateo, CA (US); Brandon Cheung, San Francisco, CA (US); James Monsees, San Francisco, CA (US); and Roxolana Wacyk, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to JUUL Labs, Inc., Washington, DC (US)
Appl. No. 16/956,489
Filed by JUUL Labs, Inc., Washington, DC (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 21, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/067388
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 19, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/126805, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/760,918, filed on Nov. 13, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/745,959, filed on Oct. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/690,947, filed on Jun. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/609,289, filed on Dec. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0011446 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A24F 40/49 (2020.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/042 (2013.01) [G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06K 19/06028 (2013.01); G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining, via one or more processors, whether a vaporizer device is within a communication range of a second device, the determining based on transmitting a broadcast message from the second device;
locking, via the one or more processors, the vaporizer device in response to the vaporizer device being within the communication range, wherein locking the vaporizer device comprises disabling use of a heating function of the vaporizer device;
receiving, via the one or more processors, information indicative of an age of a user of the vaporizer device, the information received from a third device that is separate from the second device; and
unlocking, via the one or more processors and based on the information indicative of the age of the user, the vaporizer device, wherein unlocking the vaporizer device comprises enabling use of the heating function at a time when the vaporizer device is within the communication range of the second device.