US Patent Issued to FCA US on May 26 for "Vehicle management for car wash" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,076, issued on May 26, 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, an ignition button, and a brake system including a parking brake. A controller is programmed to determine the shifter has been moved to the Neutral position, determine the ignition button has been pressed a predetermined number of times within a predetermined time, determine a grad...