US Patent Issued to Opus IVS on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle diagnostic scan device with selectively searchable results" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,844, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Opus IVS Inc. (Dexter, Mich.).

"Vehicle diagnostic scan device with selectively searchable results" was invented by Brian J. Herron (Dexter, Mich.), Alexander P. Walsh (Conception Bay South, Canada) and James T. Fish (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of diagnosing a vehicle electronic system and searching for relevant vehicle information pertaining thereto includes a vehicle diagnostic computer tool configured to operate in a mode to scan a vehicle to obtain diagnostic scan data, obtaining a plurality of diagnostic scan data results from the electronic system...