ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,241, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle diagnosis method and information presentation method" was invented by Riku Usami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer of a vehicle diagnosis system acquires a sound produced in a traveling vehicle. The computer of the vehicle diagnosis system diagnoses a status of the vehicle based on the sound acquired. The computer of the vehicle diagnosis system causes a diagnosis result indicating the status of the vehicle to be output from an apparatus mounted on the vehicle."

The patent was filed on Dec. 6, 2022, under Applicatio...