US Patent Issued to Snap-on on March 31 for "Method and system for vehicle service session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,859, issued on March 31, was assigned to Snap-on Inc. (Kenosha, Wis.).

"Method and system for vehicle service session" was invented by Patrick S. Merg (Hollister, Calif.), Jacob G. Foreman (Hollister, Calif.), Joshua C. Covington (San Juan Bautista, Calif.), Joseph R. Grammatico (San Jose, Calif.) and Brett A. Kelley (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising outputting, for transmission to a server, a request including an identifier of a service session record (SSR) corresponding to a vehicle. The SSR includes a timeline for tracking event(s) corresponding to the SSR. The method includes receiving, in resp...