ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,307, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle equipped with self-diagnostic system" was invented by Tomoaki Yoshiyama (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle includes a vehicle control ECU including a recording unit that records a self-diagnosis result and the like as diagnostic data, and a gateway ECU. The gateway ECU has a function of outputting diagnostic data to a diagnostic tool outside the vehicle when diagnosing the vehicle, a function of measuring a communication speed when outputting the diagnostic data to the diagnostic tool, a function of determining whether to perf...