ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,439, issued on June 10, was assigned to INNOVA ELECTRONICS Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Vehicle diagnostic system and related methodology deployable at vehicle service facility" was invented by Hoa Chau (Irvine, Calif.), Phuong Pham (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Bruce Brunda (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive-through vehicle diagnostic system for use in a drive-through track of a facility includes an offer generating module capable of presenting an offer to a user adjacent the track and receiving user input associated with a selected offer. A remote server is in communication with the offer generating module an...