Patents by Inventor Richard A. Graff

Richard A. Graff 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: 20150324905
    Abstract: A computer system, and methods for making and using it, for changing digital electrical signals to generate a valuation of a fractional interest in a contingent interest in property, the computer apparatus including: an input device operable for converting input data representing property into input digital electrical signals representing the input date; a digital electrical computer having a processor, the processor electrically connected to the input device to receive the input digital electrical signals, the processor programmed to change3 the input digital electrical signals to produce modified digital electrical signals representing a valuation of a fractional interest in a contingent interest in the property associated with at least one lease default condition for the property; a memory electrically connected to the processor; and wherein the processor manipulates further digital electrical signals to generate at least one document for the contingent interest by inserting the valuation in pre-existing t
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Ross/Graff Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Publication number: 20130268461
    Abstract: Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change the data to produce modified signals representing a separate valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the residential property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to convert the modified signals into documentation including the respective valuation of each of the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 8510190
    Abstract: Illustratively, there can be a securitization system that is comprised of a computer or computers using a network, and a process, for the conversion of assets into marketable securities. In one embodiment, the securitization system includes a distribution system to distribute at least some of the marketable securities generated by the securitization system to one or more buyers. The process may utilize a new definition of securitization that expands the universe of securitizable assets, the universe of asset securitization methodologies, and the respective universes of securities and investment assets that can be designed and generated thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Ross/Graff Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Graff, James M. McKevitt
  • Patent number: 8463689
    Abstract: Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change the data to produce modified signals representing a separate valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the residential property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to convert the modified signals into documentation including the respective valuation of each of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Ross/Graff Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Richard A Graff
  • Patent number: 8396779
    Abstract: A machine and method including a computer configured to generate and display multiple computer screens. A first computer receives data representing a first component of property and a second component of the property from at least one other computer, the property being a fixed-income asset, and is programmed to manipulate the data to generate one yield/discount rate for the first component and another yield/discount rate for the second component and to display the one yield/discount rate on a monitor in a first computer screen generated by the first computer and the other yield/discount rate on a monitor in one of the first computer screen and another computer screen generated by the first computer, and to compute purchase prices for the components in consummating a sale and corresponding purchase of the first component to one buyer and a sale and corresponding purchase of the second component to another buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Graff/Ross Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Publication number: 20130041845
    Abstract: A machine and method including a computer configured to generate and display multiple computer screens. A first computer receives data representing a first component of property and a second component of the property from at least one other computer, the property being a fixed-income asset, and is programmed to manipulate the data to generate one yield/discount rate for the first component and another yield/discount rate for the second component and to display the one yield/discount rate on a monitor in a first computer screen generated by the first computer and the other yield/discount rate on a monitor in one of the first computer screen and another computer screen generated by the first computer, and to compute purchase prices for the components in consummating a sale and corresponding purchase of the first component to one buyer and a sale and corresponding purchase of the second component to another buyer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Graff/Ross Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 8285623
    Abstract: An apparatus and process, including an electronic system, the system for generating output in selling fixed income instruments, the system including a first computer system having an output device and at least one other computer system having an input device, the first computer system and the other computer system being respectively located, the computer systems being used in cooperation in a multiple computer system in electronically communicating data between the computer systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Graff/Ross Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 8285628
    Abstract: Illustratively, there can be a securitization system that is comprised of a computer or computers using a network, and a process, for the conversion of assets into marketable securities. In one embodiment, the securitization system includes a distribution system to distribute at least some of the marketable securities generated by the securitization system to one or more buyers. The process may utilize a new definition of securitization that expands the universe of securitizable assets, the universe of asset securitization methodologies, and the universe of securities that can be designed and generated thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Ross/Graff Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Graff, James M. McKevitt
  • Patent number: 8180649
    Abstract: Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change the data to produce modified signals representing a separate valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the residential property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to convert the modified signals into documentation including the respective valuation of each of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Ross/Graff Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Richard A Graff
  • Patent number: 8103567
    Abstract: Illustratively, there can be a securitization system that is comprised of a computer or computers using a network, and a process, for the conversion of assets into marketable securities. In one embodiment, the securitization system includes a distribution system to distribute at least some of the marketable securities generated by the securitization system to one or more buyers. The process may utilize a new definition of securitization that expands the universe of securitizable assets, the universe of asset securitization methodologies, and the universe of securities that can be designed and generated thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ross/Graff Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Graff, James M. McKevitt
  • Publication number: 20110246243
    Abstract: Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change the data to produce modified signals representing a separate valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the residential property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to convert the modified signals into documentation including the respective valuation of each of the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 7908202
    Abstract: An electronic system, the system for selling fixed income instruments, the system including a second computer having an output device and at least one buyer's computer having an electrically coupled input device and a monitor, the buyer's computer and the second computer being respectively located, the computers being used in cooperation in a multiple computer system in electronically communicating data between the computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Graff/Ross Holdings, LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 7865416
    Abstract: Illustratively, there can be a securitization system that is comprised of a computer or computers using a network, and a process, for the conversion of assets into marketable securities. In one embodiment, the securitization system includes a distribution system to distribute at least some of the marketable securities generated by the securitization system to one or more buyers. The process may utilize a new definition of securitization that expands the universe of securitizable assets, the universe of asset securitization methodologies, and the universe of securities that can be designed and generated thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Ross/Graff Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Graff, James M. McKevitt
  • Publication number: 20100241594
    Abstract: An apparatus and process, including an electronic system, the system for generating output in selling fixed income instruments, the system including a first computer system having an output device and at least one other computer system having an input device, the first computer system and the other computer system being respectively located, the computer systems being used in cooperation in a multiple computer system in electronically communicating data between the computer systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: GRAFF/ROSS HOLDINGS, LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 7685053
    Abstract: An electronic system, the system for selling fixed income instruments, the system including a second computer having an output device and at least one buyer's computer having an electrically coupled input device and a monitor, the buyer's computer and the second computer being respectively located, the computers being used in cooperation in a multiple computer system in electronically communicating data between the computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Graff/Ross Holdings, LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 7505934
    Abstract: Computer machine, manufacture, methods of making and using the same, and product produced thereby, each pertaining to valuing, trading, and/or documenting securities that produce mostly tax-exempt income. A method includes making a second financial analysis output having a second computed valuation for property, the financial analysis output being made by steps including: controlling a computer in generating as output a valuation for an income-producing security, the security not a tax-exempt security, most of the income produced by the security being tax-exempt; communicating some of the output to a second computer for generating the second valuation; and generating the second financial analysis output, including the second valuation, at the second computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Graff/Ross Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Publication number: 20080120247
    Abstract: An electronic system, the system for selling fixed income instruments, the system including a second computer having an output device and at least one buyer's computer having an electrically coupled input device and a monitor, the buyer's computer and the second computer being respectively located, the computers being used in cooperation in a multiple computer system in electronically communicating data between the computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Publication number: 20080091476
    Abstract: Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change the data to produce modified signals representing a separate valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the residential property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to convert the modified signals into documentation including the respective valuation of each of the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 7295987
    Abstract: A computer system for changing signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer system including: an input device operable for converting input data representing the residential property into input signals representing the input data; a computer having a processor, the processor connected to the input to receive the input computer signals, the processor programmed to change the input signals to produce modified signals representing a separate market-based valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to the processor to convert the modified signals into an illustration including the respective valuation of each of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Graff/Ross Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff
  • Patent number: 7203661
    Abstract: A computer system, and methods for making and using it, for manipulating digital electrical signals to produce an illustration of a decomposition of property into separately valued components. The computer system includes a digital electrical computer controlled by a processor. There is a first logic means controlling the processor in manipulating digital electrical signals representing input data to the computer, the input data characterizing at least two components decomposed from the property, the manipulating including transforming the digital electrical signals into modified digital electrical signals representing respective values for each of the components, the values being computed to reflect taxation for the components. Input means is coupled to the computer and operable for converting the input data into the digital electrical signals and communicating the digital electrical signals to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Graff/Ross Holdings
    Inventor: Richard A. Graff