ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,012, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods to utilize smart components" was invented by Jeremy Leigh Cattone (Tigard, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable hardware to facilitate a diagnosis of a failure of a first part in a vehicle. The system receives a maintenance message, over a network at a network-based marketplace. The maintenance message includes characterization information received from a component in the vehicle. The component includes a sensor that senses the first part to generate the characterization information. The system identifies s...