On July 21, 2026, Chad P. Budreau received U.S. Patent No. 5,131,832 on a Heated Ice Cream Scoop Apparatus:

The scoop employs a disposable butane lighter as the heat source to heat the scoop to facilitate dispensing the ice cream.

Chad was not the only inventor to repurpose a butane cigarette lighter. Jerald and Joseph Bovino used a butane lighter as the heat source for their Fly Tackle Steamer (U.S. Patent No. 4,401,102):

James Rose repurposed a lighter to provide the heat for his hot air tool for Heat-Shrink Tubuing (U.S. Patent No. 5,476,089: