Patents Assigned to Credit Acceptance Corporation
  • Patent number: 6950807
    Abstract: A method of providing financing is provided. The method provides financing for allowing a customer to purchase a product selected from an inventory of products maintained by a dealer. The method includes the steps of maintaining a database of the dealer's inventory, gathering information from the customer, calculating a credit score for the customer based at least in part on the information gathered from the customer, determining an advance amount to be paid to the dealer for each individual product in the dealer inventory in the event that that particular product is sold to the customer, calculating a front-end profit to be realized by the dealer for each individual product in the dealer inventory, and presenting a financing package to the dealer for each individual product in the dealer's inventory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Credit Acceptance Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey Michael Brock