US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 10 for "Method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for determining defective vehicles" (German, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,387, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for determining defective vehicles" was invented by Marco Bross (Sao Paulo), Markus Frank (Munich), Florian Eberl (Fraunberg, Germany) and Julia Hollmayer-Lahrsow (Ratzenhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method determines defective vehicles, wherein the defective vehicles are a subset of vehicles and the vehicles are divided into a plurality of vehicle types. Then method includes providing an expected value of a number of predefined messages to be sent for each vehicle type, and determin...