ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,566, issued on June 16, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Drive-mode specific interfaces for a display device of a vehicle" was invented by Britt Singh Miura (Menlo Park, Calif.), Herve Cecchi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paul Michael Prax II (Mountain View, Calif.), Ian Delaney (Irvine, Calif.), Gabriela Fruteiro Castro (Los Angeles), Nicole Johnson (Los Angeles) and Wassym Bensaid (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive mode hierarchy includes drive mode categories and drive modes belonging to each category. Each drive mode defines values for attributes of the drivetrain and/or suspension of a vehicl...