US Patent Issued to Canon on April 8 for "Image forming system detecting change in physical quantity (sound) from variable mechanism and determining and notifying an abnormal condition based on the change compared to a threshold" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,487, issued on April 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system detecting change in physical quantity (sound) from variable mechanism and determining and notifying an abnormal condition based on the change compared to a threshold" was invented by Seiji Hara (Shizuoka, Japan), Yohei Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masatoshi Yoshida (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a management apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a variable mechanism, a physical quantity detection unit that detects a change in physical quantity caused when a state ...