ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,686, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MW POS Inc. (Arlington, Va.).
"Systems and methods for automated car wash facility throughput control" was invented by Nathan Alan Harris (Washington), Joshua Richard Dotson (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), James Hodges McAliley (Charleston, S.C.), Aaron Mykal Clint (Stewartsville, Mont.) and Jonathan David Hester (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more processors coupled to memory can maintain a first queue of vehicles comprising a first vehicle and a second vehicle and transmit, to a controller of a car wash tunnel system maintaining a second queue, a first instruction to add infor...