ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,339, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap-on Inc. (Kenosha, Wis.).
"Automated vehicle scan tool initialization" was invented by Patrick S. Merg (Hollister, Calif.), Roy S. Brozovich (Campbell, Calif.), Jacob G. Foreman (San Jose, Calif.) and Brett A. Kelley (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a computing device, (i) a user identifier, (ii) a vehicle identifier for a vehicle, and (iii) contextual information related to vehicle service content currently displayed on the computing device. Based on the contextual information, the method includes determining a vehicle sca...