ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,772, issued on April 14, was assigned to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle diagnostic system, method, and apparatus" was invented by Feng Geng (Suzhou, China), Yong Li (Darmstadt, Germany), Pingping Yi (Beijing) and Min Li (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle diagnostic system includes a key management system and a to-be-diagnosed unit. The key management system receives a key authorization request sent by a diagnostic device, generates a temporary key based on the key authorization request, and sends a key authorization response to the diagnostic device. The key aut...