ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,225, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sensor diagnostic device" was invented by Tomoki Shinozaki (Tokyo), Takuya Takashima (Tokyo) and Kunihiko Kuronuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor diagnostic device for use in a vehicle including a first temperature sensor and a second temperature sensor includes a control system. The control system includes a processor and a memory communicably coupled to each other. The control system determines a sensor abnormality based on a detected temperature difference between a first detected temperature detected by the first temperature sensor and a second detecte...