US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Sept. 15 for "Method for carrying out a functional diagnosis of at least one vehicle component, and diagnostic system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,103, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for carrying out a functional diagnosis of at least one vehicle component, and diagnostic system" was invented by Simone Konig (Ellwangen, Germany), Oliver Kopp (Sindelfingen, Germany), Michael Hahn (Ostfildern, Germany) and Rose Sturm (Gaertringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functional diagnosis of a vehicle component of a vehicle in production involves a vehicle-external first computing unit generating a diagnosis execution protocol. The diagnosis execution protocol includes machine-readable instructions for performing an at l...