ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,650, issued on May 6, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Corrosion-resistant reservoir for an e-vaping device and method of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Georgios D. Karles (Richmond, Va.) and Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to a method of protecting a surface of an e-vaping device portion from corrosion, the method including preparing a coating mixture configured to protect the surface from corrosion, and coating the surface with a protective coating based on the coating mixture, wherein the coating is performed via one of electrodepositio...