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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2024
Snap-on Incorporated, Kenosha, WI (US);
Patrick S. Merg, Hollister, CA (US);
Jacob G. Foreman, Hollister, CA (US);
Ricardo Cebreros-Campos, Gilroy, CA (US);
Brett A. Kelley, San Jose, CA (US);
Snap-on Incorporated, Kenosha, WI (US);
Abstract
A system and method for configuring a vehicle service tool (VST) to operate in a first state in which a user-selectable control is operable for selecting a category of diagnostic descriptors to use when the VST operates in a second state; receiving, while the VST operates in the first state, a selection of the user-selectable control and configuring the VST to use the category of diagnostic descriptors when operating in the second state; configuring the VST to operate in the second state so that the VST displays a GUI and requests vehicle data messages; receiving, while the VST operates in the second state, vehicle data messages including a diagnostic identifier and corresponding data values determining, from among multiple diagnostic descriptors corresponding to the category of diagnostic descriptors, a diagnostic descriptor corresponding to the diagnostic identifier; and outputting, within the GUI, the diagnostic descriptor and a representation of the data values.
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