US Patent Issued to Snap-on on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for configuring vehicle service tool with categorized descriptors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,510, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Snap-on Inc. (Kenosha, Wis.).

"Method and system for configuring vehicle service tool with categorized descriptors" was invented by Patrick S. Merg (Hollister, Calif.), Jacob G. Foreman (Hollister, Calif.), Ricardo Cebreros-Campos (Gilroy, Calif.) and Brett A. Kelley (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for configuring a vehicle service tool (VST) to operate in a first state in which a user-selectable control is operable for selecting a category of diagnostic descriptors to use when the VST operates in a second state; receiving, while the VST operates in the first ...