# US 2019/0172276 A1 · Vehicle environmental compliance system and method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0172276 A1 - Document ID: US20190172276A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/212,220 - Filed: 2018-12-06 - Published: 2019-06-06 - Earliest claimed: 2017-12-06 - Assignees: Nexus Environmental, LLC - Applicants: Nexus Environmental, LLC - Inventors: Pradeep R. Tripathi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190172276A1 ## CPC - G07C 5/0808: {Diagnosing performance data (testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005)} - F01N 11/007: {the diagnostic devices measuring oxygen or air concentration downstream of the exhaust apparatus} - F02D 41/02: Circuit arrangements for generating control signals - F02D 41/22: Safety or indicating devices for abnormal conditions {(in air/fuel ratio feedback systems F02D41/1495, in electric control linkage F02D11/107, in purge control systems F02M25/0809)} - F02D 41/221: {relating to the failure of actuators or electrically driven elements} - F02D 41/222: {relating to the failure of sensors or parameter detection devices} - G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)} - G07C 2205/02: using a vehicle scan tool - Y02T 10/40: Engine management systems - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - F01N: GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with gas exhaust of propulsion units in vehicles B60K13/00; combustion-air intake silencers specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines F02M35/00; protecting against, or damping, noise in general G10K11/16) - F02D: CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES (vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed B60K31/00; conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function, road vehicle drive control systems for purposes other than the control of a single sub-unit B60W) - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A vehicle environmental compliance system includes: an onboard diagnostic (“OBD”) tool configured to obtain OBD data from a vehicle's onboard diagnostics; an application for storage on a mobile computing device in communication with the OBD tool, the application configured to process the OBD data to form processed OBD data; a compliance center or server for receiving the process the OBD data from the application, the compliance center or server configured to further process the processed OBD data to form further processed OBD data; and wherein one of the processed OBD data or the further processed OBD data includes a result of OBD data subjected to a compliance evaluation routine, and wherein the system maintains a triggering algorithm that determines when the compliance evaluation routine is performed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicle environmental compliance system comprising: an onboard diagnostic (“OBD”) tool configured to obtain OBD data from a vehicle's onboard diagnostics; an application for storage on a mobile computing device in communication with the OBD tool, the application configured to process the OBD data to form processed OBD data; a compliance center or server for receiving the processed OBD data, the compliance center or server configured to further process the processed OBD data to form further processed OBD data; and wherein one of the processed OBD data or the further processed OBD data includes a result of OBD data subjected to a compliance evaluation routine, and wherein the system maintains a triggering algorithm that determines when the compliance evaluation routine is performed. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the processed OBD data via the application includes the result of OBD data subjected to the compliance evaluation routine. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 2, wherein the further processed data from the compliance center or server includes the result of OBD data subjected to the compliance evaluation routine placed into a form suitable for sending to a jurisdiction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the further processed OBD data via the compliance center or server includes the result of OBD data subjected to the compliance evaluation routine. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 4, wherein the processed OBD data via the application includes OBD data from the OBD tool placed into a form suitable for sending to the compliance center or server. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the compliance evaluation routine is stored and processed at the application. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the compliance evaluation routine is stored and processed at the compliance center or server. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the triggering algorithm is stored and processed at the application or the compliance center or server, and wherein the triggering algorithm is applied before allowing obtain OBD data to be sent from the OBD tool. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the triggering algorithm is stored and processed at the compliance center or server, and wherein the triggering algorithm is applied before allowing processed OBD data to be delivered to the compliance center or server. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the triggering algorithm and the compliance evaluation routine are stored and processed at the compliance center or server, and wherein the triggering algorithm is applied before allowing the processed OBD data to be subjected to the compliance evaluation routine to form further processed OBD data. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the triggering algorithm takes into account at least one factor selected from the group consisting of: duration from the previous compliance evaluation, mileage, make of automobile, year of automobile manufacturer, gas efficiency, sensed automobile parameter(s), and a randomly generated number. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the application includes software for processing the OBD data or is a browser application that recalls software for processing the OBD data. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 1, wherein the compliance center or server is configured to receive processed OBD data from multiple applications associated with multiple OBD tools. ### Claim 14 A vehicle environmental compliance system comprising: an onboard diagnostic (“OBD”) tool configured to obtain OBD data from a vehicle's onboard diagnostics; an application for storage on a mobile computing device in communication with the OBD tool, the application configured to process the OBD data to form processed OBD data; and a compliance center or server for receiving the processed OBD data from the application, the compliance center or server configured to subject the processed OBD data to a compliance evaluation routine, the compliance center or server maintaining a triggering algorithm that determines when the compliance evaluation routine is performed. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 14, wherein the compliance center or server is configured to inform the application when to accept OBD data from the OBD tool based upon the triggering algorithm. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 14, wherein the compliance center or server is configured to inform the application to accept OBD data from the OBD tool when the compliance evaluation routine is to be performed. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The vehicle environmental compliance system of claim 14, wherein the compliance center or server is configured accept to the processed OBD data when the compliance evaluation routine is to be performed. ### Claim 18 A vehicle environmental compliance method comprising: allowing a triggering algorithm stored on a computer memory and processed via a processor to trigger a compliance evaluation for a vehicle having onboard diagnostics; upon triggering the compliance evaluation, electronically obtaining onboard diagnostic (“OBD”) data from an OBD tool, the OBD tool obtaining the OBD data from the vehicle's onboard diagnostics; and electronically performing a compliance evaluation routine on the obtained OBD data or a derivative thereof. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The vehicle environmental compliance method of claim 18, which further includes transferring the OBD data or derivative thereof to a center or server for electronically performing the compliance evaluation routine, the transferring performed via an application that is portable so as to be brought into proximity of the OBD tool to obtain the OBD data. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The vehicle environmental compliance method of claim 19, wherein the center or server includes the computer memory storing the triggering algorithm.