ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,955, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Portion of an electronic vaping device formed of an oxygen sequestering agent" was invented by Jason Andrew Macko (Richmond, Va.) and Georgios Karles (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, the reservoir configured to store a pre-vapor formulation, a heater in the housing, the heater configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation, at least one portion formed of a material including at least one polymer and at least one oxygen sequeste...