ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,398, issued on July 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Motor control apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masatoshi Itoh (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control apparatus includes: a motor; a transmission mechanism configured to transmit a drive force of the motor to a load of the motor; and a control unit configured to, in case of stopping the motor being rotated at a first speed, decelerate the motor at least at a first deceleration in a first period, in which a rotation speed of the motor is decelerated from the first speed to a second speed lower than the first speed, and decelerate...