ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,135, issued on April 22, was assigned to RM ACQUISITION LLC (Chicago).

"Detection and alerting of vehicle safety system issues" was invented by Shaun M. Howard (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system detects vehicle safety system issues present within a fleet vehicle. A plurality of diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) collected or generated by an onboard computing system of the vehicle are received via a network. The system determines two or more of the DTCs occurred within a predetermined threshold. The two or more DTCs correspond to different sources within the vehicle. A common theme is determined between the plurality ...