ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,513, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).

"System and method for performing localized electroless nickel plating" was invented by Alice Pranzetti (Florence, Italy), Michelangelo Bellacci (Florence, Italy), Marco Romanelli (Florence, Italy), Giovanni Pulci (Rome), Francesco Marra (Rome), Virgilio Genova (Rome) and Laura Paglia (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing electroless nickel plating on a portion of a metallic piece comprises a chamber fixedly coupled to the metallic piece during operation of the system so that the portion of the metallic piece and the chambe...