ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,135, issued on April 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Driving device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinya Ikeda (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving device includes a drive source including a plurality of windings, a plurality of driving components configured to transmit a driving force output from the drive source to a load, a current detector configured to detect a driving current flowing through the plurality of windings, and at least one processor configured to determine a lifespan and presence or absence of abnormality of the drive source and the plurality of driving components based on ...