ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,853, issued on June 17, was assigned to Fontem Ventures B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Tray for an electronic smoking device or parts thereof" was invented by Thorben Rehders (Hamburg, Germany), Sebastian Senftleben (Hamburg, Germany) and Duncan B. Robinson (Clay Cross, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to electronic smoking devices and in particular to a tray for at least a portion of an electronic smoking device. The tray (100) comprises at least one cavity (101) for containing the portion. The tray (100) is configured to be reversibly deformed from a default form into a deformed form by finge...