ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,362, issued on March 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Malfunction diagnosing system" was invented by Masaki Komuro (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Suzuki (Tokyo), Yosuke Ohtomo (Tokyo), Takumi Hoshi (Tokyo), Takashi Kono (Tokyo), Kazuki Makino (Tokyo), Masakazu Yoshino (Tokyo), Itaru Seta (Tokyo) and Shinya Sagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A malfunction diagnosing system includes a data acquirer, an appropriate range setter, and a malfunction determiner. The data acquirer is configured to acquire traveling environment data and actual traveling result data in association with each other for a target vehicle to be subjected to m...