US Patent Issued to NXP on Aug. 25 for "Data processing system and method for cooperative vehicle malfunction detection in a fleet of vehicles" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,635, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Data processing system and method for cooperative vehicle malfunction detection in a fleet of vehicles" was invented by Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels) and Wim Nuyts (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for cooperative malfunction detection between an observer vehicle and an observed vehicle. The method includes requesting, by the observed vehicle, a report of observed malfunctions of the observed vehicle from the observer vehicle via a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication system. The observer vehicle detects and captures sensor...