From 159088d9180e4fcc533cf00b1b310f890e4699a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AbhiramSakha <143825001+AbhiramSakha@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:52:03 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: add MaximumElement implementation with
 documentation

---
 .../thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java  | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java b/src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7d1d27c6c822
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.thealgorithms.arrays;
+
+/**
+ * This class provides a method to find the maximum element in an array.
+ */
+public class MaximumElement {
+
+    /**
+     * Finds the maximum value in the given array.
+     *
+     * @param arr the input array
+     * @return the maximum element in the array
+     */
+    public static int findMax(int[] arr) {
+        int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
+
+        for (int num : arr) {
+            if (num > max) {
+                max = num;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return max;
+    }
+}

From 4f4aa68f3a7eb7b48f502ed2a7c06138dd6c7a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AbhiramSakha <143825001+AbhiramSakha@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:00:26 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix: align MaximumElement with project standards

---
 .../com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java b/src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java
index 7d1d27c6c822..886aa271225b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/arrays/MaximumElement.java
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 package com.thealgorithms.arrays;
 
 /**
- * This class provides a method to find the maximum element in an array.
+ * Finds the maximum element in an array.
  */
-public class MaximumElement {
+public final class MaximumElement {
+
+    private MaximumElement() {
+        // utility class
+    }
 
     /**
-     * Finds the maximum value in the given array.
+     * Returns the maximum element in the array.
      *
-     * @param arr the input array
-     * @return the maximum element in the array
+     * @param arr input array
+     * @return maximum value
      */
-    public static int findMax(int[] arr) {
+    public static int max(int[] arr) {
         int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
 
         for (int num : arr) {