ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,701, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for diagnosing automobile transmission" was invented by Dongwon Jeoung (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Geontae Lee (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea) and SeulChan Park (Gwangmyeong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing a transmission based on artificial intelligence may include collecting vehicle information including shift data of a vehicle, pre-processing and labeling the transmission shift data, generating a candidate feature set list including a plurality of candidate feature s...