ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,251, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle diagnostic system" was invented by Hideaki Bunazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Shintaro Mukogawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Rikako Zenibana (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle diagnostic system, a storage device stores data of a learned model and probability distribution data obtained by generating pieces of generated data by a learned model using pieces of sound data recorded using vehicles with identified types of anomalies and by obtaining, for each of the types of anomalies, a probability distribution of a loss variable. Processing circuit...