Patent ID: 7136728

Claim:
An improved vehicle wheel alignment system including at least one sensor for acquiring automotive data, interface circuitry in communication with the sensing device for generating data representative of automotive data acquired by the sensing device, and a computer system having a central processor in communication with a memory, a data storage, and the interface circuitry, the improvement comprising: the computer system configured with a plurality of software applications, said plurality of software applications including at least one vehicle wheel alignment software application; the computer system configured with an operating system having a plurality of operating system components, said operating system establishing for each of said plurality of software applications, a discrete protected operating environment wherein interaction between each of said plurality of software applications is controlled by said operating system; said computer system further configured to receive data from the at least one sensor device through the interface circuitry, and to provide said data to at least said vehicle wheel alignment software application, and wherein vehicle wheel alignment software applications is configured to utilize said received data to generate a representation of at least one vehicle wheel alignment angle for display to an operator.