ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,535, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit) and Northeastern University (Boston).

"Cloud-based platform server for vehicle DTC data analyzing, reporting and responding" was invented by Shiming Duan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yingjie Cai (Royal Oak, Mich.), Ming Hsiang Hong (Austin, Texas), Srikanth Reddy Bandameedi (Georgetown, Texas), Sambasiva Velama (Round Rock, Texas) and Xiaomeng Peng (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based platform server includes a memory, a receiving module, and a reporting module. The memory stores a DTC configuration table including DTC rules and a DTC ...