ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,702, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle diagnosis apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Tae Hee Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyung Woo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Young Rock Chung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dae Un Sung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for inspecting a host vehicle can include a memory configured to store failure diagnosis model information for each of vehicle parts, where the failure diagnosis model information is obtained while a test vehicle equipped with each of the vehicle pa...