ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,598, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Method of analyzing state of image forming apparatus based on running sound" was invented by Kaoru Tsunoda (Shizuoka, Japan), Daisuke Momiyama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masaki Kobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs a first analysis operation in which an operation history of an image forming apparatus and input information are analyzed, an issuance operation in which, in a case where a result of an analysis of the first analysis operation satisfies notification conditions, a second analysis operation in which a confidence for the result of th...