ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,393, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for diagnosis of a vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Ho Jin Jung (Bucheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a vehicle diagnostic system and a diagnostic communication method therefor. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a vehicle diagnostic system comprising a diagnostic communication device configured to perform diagnostic communication by using a security access service and an authentication service of a standard diagnostic protocol,...