Patents by Inventor Ben Morales

Ben Morales has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11461841
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Statistical Risk Management (SRM) system, and in doing so the SRM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the SRM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: QCash Financial, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 11205222
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Heuristic-Statistical Risk Management (HS-RM) system, and in doing so the HS-RM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the HS-RM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QCASH FINANCIAL, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20190205978
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Heuristic-Statistical Risk Management (HS-RM) system, and in doing so the HS-RM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the HS-RM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20190205977
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Statistical Risk Management (SRM) system, and in doing so the SRM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the SRM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20190114704
    Abstract: A statistical model enables a lender financial institution to leverage multiple relationship attributes of a borrower to predict whether the borrower is capable of timely paying back a loan. The statistical model is generated to provide a multitude of relationship attribute coefficients based on historical borrower data of a multiple borrowers from an alternative loan approval process. The multitude of relationship attribute coefficients are applied to corresponding relationship attribute values of a borrower that is seeking a loan from a financial institution to generate an intermediate borrower score for the borrower. A probability of the borrower not being charged off on a loan after a predetermine time period is then calculated based on the intermediate borrower score. Accordingly, the loan may be determined to be approved or denied based on a comparison of the probability to an approval cutoff threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner