ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,007, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cox Automotive Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for automatically predicting and scheduling vehicle repairs" was invented by Hesham Starkey (Atlanta), Jordan Smith (Atlanta), Jonathan Snyder (Atlanta) and Bradley Barnes (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for automatically predicting and scheduling vehicle repairs. Particularly, a model (such as a natural language processing model, for example) may be trained using historical data relating to prior vehicle DTCs and actions taken to resolve the DTCs. The trained model may then be u...