ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,851, issued on March 17, was assigned to HELLA GUTMANN SOLUTIONS GMBH (Ihringen, Germany).
"Method and diagnostic device for performing vehicle diagnostics" was invented by Martin Gutlein (Ihringen, Germany) and Uwe Riegger (Ihringen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for performing vehicle diagnostics, comprising the steps of: receiving (S14, S24) a plurality of fault codes from a vehicle (10), determining at least one first vehicle fault state, the vehicle fault state constituting a state of the vehicle (10) in which at least one of the fault codes has been triggered in the vehicle (10), on t...