ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,192, issued on July 1, was assigned to Snap-on Inc. (Kenosha, Wis.).

"Method and system of performing diagnostic flowchart" was invented by Patrick S. Merg (Hollister, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system pertaining to performing a diagnostic flowchart are described. A method includes determining a first input indicative of a vehicle problem, and transmitting a request indicative of the problem to a server. The method includes receiving a diagnostic flowchart associated with the vehicle problem. Each diagnostic flowchart includes one or more path elements. Each path element is ordered within the diagnostic flowchar...