ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,843, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Snap-on Incorported (Kenosha, Wis.).

"Method and system for annotating graphs of vehicle data" was invented by Joshua C. Covington (San Juan Bautista, Calif.), Patrick S. Merg (Hollister, Calif.) and Jacob G. Foreman (Hollister, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving, at a computing system, a first user input from a user interface during operation of a vehicle and responsive to receiving the first user input, determining a time of reception for the first user input. The method further includes receiving a first set of parameters from the vehicle that correspo...