US Patent Issued to STANLEY ELECTRIC on July 29 for "Wurtzite-type manganese oxide particles and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,342, issued on July 29, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Wurtzite-type manganese oxide particles and method for producing same" was invented by Takuya Kazama (Tokyo), Wataru Tamura (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Miyake (Tokyo), Kenji Moriyama (Tokyo), Atsushi Muramatsu (Miyagi, Japan) and Kiyoshi Kanie (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Single-phase manganese oxide particles having a wurtzite crystal structure. The particles can be obtained by thermally decomposing a compound containing manganese. In this procedure, a reducing agent consisting of at least one of a polyol-based material and an ethylene glycol stearate...