ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,300, issued on April 7, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Integrated vehicle health management systems and methods using an enhanced fault model for a diagnostic reasoner" was invented by Peter D. Schmitt (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Joachim J. Klesing (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vehicle fault management includes generating, for a vehicle system, a fault model including a plurality of faults using design failure mode and effect analysis information and parsing each of the faults of the plurality of faults by subsystem of the vehicle system. The method also includ...