MUMBAI, India, Nov. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441039454 A) filed by Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, on May 20, 2024, for 'identifying malfunctions in vehicles.'

Inventor(s) include Swaminathan, Sivakumar; Ramanathan, Narayanan; and Mahalingam, Muthukumaran.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 21, under issue no. 47/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Examples techniques to identify malfunctions in a vehicle are described. In an example, a malfunction indicator displayed on a dashboard of the vehicle 5 is scanned. Based on a malfunction database preconfigured in a system, a malfunction corresponding to the malfunction indicato...