ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,389, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Opus IVS Inc. (Dexter, Mich.).

"System and method for documentation of vehicle repair services" was invented by Brian J. Herron (Dexter, Mich.), David M. Joseph (Ypsilanti, Mich.), David Baartman (Canton, Mich.) and Michael D. Jurmo (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method includes connecting an interface device to a port of a vehicle to be in communication with an electrical system of the vehicle for monitoring the vehicle, and running a selected one of multiple available calibration and/or repair programs via the interface device to generate a calibration/repair data ...