US Patent Issued to FCA US on June 23 for "Vehicle management for car wash" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,124, issued on June 23, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle management for car wash" was invented by Abhilash Gudapati (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system, for a vehicle that implements a car wash mode, includes a shifter configured to move the vehicle between Park, Reverse, Neutral, and Drive (PRND) positions, a propulsion system, an instrument panel cluster including a human machine interface (HMI), a brake system including a parking brake. A controller is programmed to determine the shifter is not in the Park position, display, via the HMI, an option to initiate a car wash mode if th...