ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,112, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Vibration-type drive apparatus, and drive method for vibration-type drive apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Kataoka (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration-type drive apparatus provided to solve the task includes a control unit that outputs a command signal, a drive unit that outputs a drive signal in accordance with the command signal, a vibrator unit in which two or more vibrators that vibrate in accordance with the drive signal are connected, a drive signal analyzing unit that analyzes the drive signal and outputs an analysis result, and a determinin...