US Patent Issued to Innova Electronics on May 12 for "System and method for vehicle diagnostics with synchronized vehicle acoustic and vibration data with on-board diagnostic data" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,543, issued on May 12, was assigned to Innova Electronics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for vehicle diagnostics with synchronized vehicle acoustic and vibration data with on-board diagnostic data" was invented by Kaushik Mahida (Irvine, Calif.), Derk Steven Louwerse (Dublin) and Bruce B. Brunda (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic system for assessing engine wear utilizes data from sensors in a vehicle engine compartment and electronic data from a vehicle communications network to provide a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation. The system includes a sensor device with an audio sensor for captu...