ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,811, issued on April 15, was assigned to Opus IVS Inc. (Dexter, Mich.).
"Remote vehicle diagnostic system and method" was invented by Brian J. Herron (Dexter, Mich.), Michael D. Jurmo (Canton, Mich.) and Richard J. Green (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a vehicle diagnostic process for diagnosing, scanning and/or programming a vehicle includes recording a diagnostic message from a diagnostic computer device to generate a recorded diagnostic message, transmitting the recorded diagnostic message to a local computer at a repair facility, with the diagnostic computer device being located remotely fr...