ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,931, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Distributed diagnostics architecture for a vehicle" was invented by Dibyendu Palai (Leamington Spa, Great Britain) and Sachin Shinde (Solihull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a distributed diagnostics architecture for a vehicle. The diagnostics architecture comprises a plurality of application functions hosted on a central compute platform (CCP) of the vehicle, a plurality of remote input/output concentrator modules (RIOs) provided at different locations within the vehicle, and a vehicle diagnosti...