Inventor · Hollister, CA, US

Patrick S. Merg

114Patents
7h-index
25Co-inventors
70Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 27, 2011 → Jun 28, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9672497B1 Methods and systems for using natural language processing and machine-learning to produce vehicle-service content Physics 77 Active
US8977423B2 Methods and systems for providing vehicle repair information Physics 42 Active
US10013679B1 Method and system for generating vehicle service content from metadata representing meaning of vehicle service data Physics 15 Active
US8930064B2 Method and system for automated and manual data capture configuration Physics 14 Active
US9201930B1 Methods and systems for providing an auto-generated repair-hint to a vehicle repair tool Physics 14 Active
US9582944B2 Methods and systems for providing vehicle repair information Physics 10 Active
US9665994B1 Methods and systems for providing a vehicle repair tip Physics 8 Active
US9639995B2 Methods and systems for generating and outputting test drive scripts for vehicles Physics 7 Active
US10134013B2 Methods and systems for clustering of repair orders based on inferences gathered from repair orders Physics 6 Active
US9846860B2 Methods and systems for clustering of repair orders based on multiple repair indicators Physics 6 Active
US12062021B2 Method and system for augmenting real-fix tips with additional content Physics 6 Active
US9633340B2 Methods and systems for mapping repair orders within a database Physics 5 Active
US10242510B2 System and method for providing vehicle data reports Electricity 5 Active
US10380557B2 Methods and systems for clustering of repair orders based on alternative repair indicators Electricity 4 Active
US10671623B2 System and method for accessing vehicle communication applications requiring vehicle identification without re-entering vehicle identification Physics 4 Active
US10216796B2 Systems and methods for predictive augmentation of vehicle service procedures Physics 4 Active
US10331687B2 System and method for accessing vehicle communication applications requiring vehicle identification without re-entering vehicle identification Physics 4 Active
US10867287B2 Methods and systems for clustering of repair orders based on inferences gathered from repair orders Physics 4 Active
US10909777B2 Method and system for annotating graphs of vehicle data Physics 4 Active
US10453036B1 Method and system for generating vehicle service content based on multi-symptom rule Physics 4 Active
US10643158B2 Technician timer Physics 3 Active
US10269191B2 Method and system for displaying PIDs based on a PID filter list Electricity 3 Active
US9934624B2 Method and system for providing diagnostic filter lists Physics 3 Active
US9158834B2 Methods and systems for mapping repair orders within a database Physics 3 Active
US10430026B2 System and method for providing an interactive vehicle diagnostic display Electricity 3 Active

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