Patents by Inventor Brandon SUMMERS

Brandon SUMMERS 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).

  • Publication number: 20250156954
    Abstract: A system and method allows an advisor to identify allocations of investments to each of several model portfolios in each of several investment strategies selected by the advisor, and to select asset classes to use and features to supply, as well as to select a primary and secondary investment to use for tax loss harvesting. Each of several investors is linked to an advisor and prompted with questions whose answers provide an initial assignment of the investor to an investment strategy from among those selected by the advisor to which the investor is linked and a model portfolio of that strategy. Investments are made and redeemed and rebalancing occurs in accordance with the model portfolio of the investor and the allocations of the advisor for that model portfolio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James SCOTT, Brandon SUMMERS, Kendall HOUSTON, Yuriy SAKOVICH, Christopher J. ZAHNER
  • Patent number: 11869087
    Abstract: A system and method allows an advisor to identify allocations of investments and/or asset classes to each of several model portfolios in each of several investment strategies selected by the advisor, and to select asset classes to use and features to supply, as well as to select a primary and secondary investment to use for tax loss harvesting. Each of several investors is linked to an advisor and prompted with questions whose answers provide an initial assignment of the investor to an investment strategy from among those selected by the advisor to which the investor is linked and a model portfolio of that strategy, such initial assignment being capable of change from the investor in a limited fashion or the advisor in a broader fashion. Investments are made and redeemed and rebalancing occurs in accordance with the model portfolio of the investor and the allocations of the advisor for that model portfolio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James Scott, Brandon Summers, Kendall Houston, Yuriy Sakovich, Christopher J. Zahner
  • Publication number: 20230377046
    Abstract: A system and method allows an advisor to identify allocations of investments to each of several model portfolios in each of several investment strategies selected by the advisor, and to select asset classes to use and features to supply, as well as to select a primary and secondary investment to use for tax loss harvesting. Each of several investors is linked to an advisor and prompted with questions whose answers provide an initial assignment of the investor to an investment strategy from among those selected by the advisor to which the investor is linked and a model portfolio of that strategy. Investments are made and redeemed and rebalancing occurs in accordance with the model portfolio of the investor and the allocations of the advisor for that model portfolio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James SCOTT, Brandon SUMMERS, Kendall HOUSTON, Yuriy SAKOVICH, Christopher J. ZAHNER