ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,932, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for the performance of autonomous vehicle diagnostics testing" was invented by Fan Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Marcus Yeo (San Francisco), Mason Tian (Mountain View, Calif.), Tamer Kalla (Mountain View, Calif.), Ryan Tyler Mackintosh (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Alex Moraru (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining an input and identifying at least a first vehicle which is to be commanded to perform at least one diagnostics test. The method also includes providing a remote diagnos...