ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,442, issued on June 10, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Vehicle diagnostic system and method having specialized data" was invented by Venkatesh Gorur Krishna Iyengar (Apple Valley, Minn.), Matthew Pasztor (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Ashok Chidige (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle diagnostic system and method utilizing a plurality of diagnostic data corpuses. A first corpus comprises conventional and well-known diagnostic data useful in a broad range of common service tasks. A second corpus comprises less well-known diagnostic data useful in less common service tasks. One or more spe...