ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,074, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus, method and computer readable storage medium for diagnosing fault of vehicle component using acceleration sensor" was invented by Tae Woong Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jae Hun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing a fault of a vehicle component, may include: a processor; a memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the processor; and the one or more programs include instructions for: an acceleration sensor for detecting an acc...