ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,702, issued on April 29, was assigned to WISE S.R.L. (Milan).

"Method for the production of functionalized elastomeric manufactured articles and manufactured articles thus obtained" was invented by Luca Ravagnan (Milan), Gabriele Corbelli (Mariano Comense, Italy), Cristian Ghisleri (Soncino, Italy), Paolo Milani (Pavia, Italy) and Mattia Marelli (Cantu', Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for the production of a manufactured article (20) constituted of an elastomeric polymer substrate, in selected zones of which there are deposits of particles of nanometric size of a metal or some other compound which create a ...