US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 30 for "Abnormal sound diagnosis system and method that can specify abnormal sounds in time periods within image forming apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,084, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Abnormal sound diagnosis system and method that can specify abnormal sounds in time periods within image forming apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yohei Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormal sound diagnosis system for specifying a cause of abnormal sound in an apparatus that includes a plurality of operating units that perform a predetermined operation and a plurality of driving units that drive the plurality of operating units: determines occurrence of abnormal sound in a plurality of time periods...