ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,852, issued on May 27, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method of a vehicle and of a network server for the maintenance of vehicle components" was invented by Marco Friederich (Braunschweig, Germany) and Martin Doring (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the maintenance of vehicle components is disclosed. The operating points of a plurality of vehicle components are captured over a first time period trianglet1 and first developments of the plurality of operating points over time in the first time period trianglet1 are determined. The operating points of the plurality of vehicle compon...