US Patent Issued to Opus IVS on Dec. 2 for "Vehicle diagnostic system and method for providing repair recommendations" (Michigan, California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,641, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Opus IVS Inc. (Dexter, Mich.).

"Vehicle diagnostic system and method for providing repair recommendations" was invented by Brian J. Herron (Dexter, Mich.), Robert A. Augustine (Ventura, Calif.), Michael D. Jurmo (Canton, Mich.), Robert Pattengale (Tucson, Ariz.) and Nelson A. Vargas (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of diagnosing a vehicle with a vehicle diagnostic system to provide repair recommendations includes connecting a vehicle diagnostic computer tool to a diagnostic port of a vehicle to be in communication with an electronic system of the vehicl...