ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,619, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for diagnosing a failure" was invented by Kyoungsoo We (Osan-si, South Korea), JungMo Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Hye Yeon Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing a failure may include collecting sensor signals related to a vehicle in a form of time series data; obtaining a feature classified into a predetermined number of frequency indices by performing a Fourier transform on a predetermined time interval among the time series data; scaling the feature t...