ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,747, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for vehicle-tuned diagnostics and reporting" was invented by Abraham Mezaael (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor configured to detect an onboard request for vehicle-action reporting configuration. The processor is also configured to send a vehicle identifier to a configuration server, responsive to the request. The processor is further configured to receive a set of configuration data, representing tuned trigger variables for vehicle reporting, tuned to a vehicle identified by the i...