US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Aug. 11 for "Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,014, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yo Kawano (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunction peripheral includes: a failure detection unit configured to detect a failure that occurs in a plurality of driven units; and a candidate extraction unit configured to collate, when the failure is detected, audio collection data collected by an audio collection unit with failure audio data and extract a first candidate for a component that causes the failure, to specify a component in a dri...