US Patent Issued to Centurylink Intellectual Property on March 24 for "System and method for implementing added services for OBD2 smart vehicle connection" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,774, issued on March 24, was assigned to Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"System and method for implementing added services for OBD2 smart vehicle connection" was invented by Tom Funk (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Directed to implementing Internet of Things ("IoT") functionality, and, in particular embodiments, implementing added services for OBD2 connection for IoT-capable vehicles. In various embodiments, a portable device (when connected to an OBD2 DLC port of a vehicle) might monitor wireless communications between a vehicle computing system(s) and an external device(s), might monitor vehicle s...