ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,426, issued on April 29, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Inspection assistance program, inspection assistance system, and inspection assistance apparatus control method" was invented by Akira Imai (Fujisawa, Japan), Masakazu Ishimaru (Fujisawa, Japan) and Hideto Hirahara (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This inspection assistance program for assisting inspection of a vehicle causes a computer to function as: a display control unit 272 that causes a display unit 25 to display a selection screen for selecting one inspection execution item from a plurality of inspection items; and a device control unit 273 that...