ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,653, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Repair search system" was invented by Takayuki Ishibashi (Tokyo), Takahiro Yoshii (Tokyo), Shogo Shibahara (Tokyo), Yudai Okabe (Tokyo), Hirofumi Yabu (Tokyo), Kohei Mukaihara (Tokyo) and Kohei Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repair search system proposing a repair method corresponding to a trouble code, the repair search system includes a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The memory has a database storing the trouble code and the repair method performed in a past in association with each other. The microprocessor is configured t...