ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,707, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SHIBAURA ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Thermistor sintered body and method for manufacturing thermistor sintered body" was invented by Kazumasa Nakamura (Saitama, Japan), Noriyuki Nakayama (Saitama, Japan) and Ikuo Yanase (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermistor sintered body has a thickness in a range of 1 micro metre to 100 micro metre and an area in a range of 1 mm2 to 10 mm2, and is composed of a single body of a sintered body having a composition of NiMn2O4. This thermistor sintered body can be manufactured by a first step of dropping a raw material liquid RL o...