ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,686, issued on March 25, was assigned to MONLIZ LLC (Sacramento, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for vehicle diagnostics based on measured vibrations" was invented by Steven A. Tobenkin (Las Vegas), Robert Monaghan (Ventura, Calif.) and Lee Lizarraga (Ventura, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring system includes a controller and one or more vibration sensors that measure operational frequencies of different vehicle components during operation of the vehicle. The controller receives the measured operational frequencies and compares them to modeled frequencies for one or more operational states of each of the diffe...