ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,836, issued on May 20, was assigned to FIELDPULSE LLC (Oakland, Mich.).

"Data transfer system and method for automotive diagnostics and service" was invented by Indermohan S. Sethi (Oakland Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic data transfer system includes: a diagnostic tool which includes a plurality of user dialogues displaying diagnostic data values, a diagnostic data transfer device configured to extract the diagnostic data values from an image of the diagnostic tool, and a diagnostic data transfer server configured to author and store authored rules, such that the diagnostic data values can be transformed ...