ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,242, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Abnormal sound diagnosis system" was invented by Yu Ueda (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where input of data of a part of a plurality of items needed for a diagnosis is received, an item of which data is to be input next is changed based on the received data, so that an item that can efficiently reduce the candidates for the cause of the abnormal sound can be used as the item of which the data is to be input next, according to the received data. As a result, the candidates for the cause of the abnormal sound are efficiently narrowed ...