US Patent Issued to Snap-on on Feb. 10 for "Methods and systems for modifying diagnostic flowcharts based on flowchart performances" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,484, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Snap-on Inc. (Kenosha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for modifying diagnostic flowcharts based on flowchart performances" was invented by Patrick S. Merg (Hollister, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system pertaining to modifying a diagnostic flowchart are described. A method can include (i) receiving, from a diagnostic computing device, a request indicative of a vehicle problem, (ii) selecting a first diagnostic flowchart associated with the vehicle problem from a plurality of diagnostic flowcharts. Each diagnostic flowchart includes one or more ordered and performable path elem...