ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,559, issued on June 17, was assigned to loanDepot.com LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Lead management system and methods thereof" was invented by Anthony Li Hsieh (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Tsutomu Yebisu (Newport Beach, Calif.), John Hoon Lee (Frisco, Texas), Saeed Ghasemzadeh (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Christian Min Kim (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a lead management system including, in some embodiments, a lead intake engine, a phone system, and a loan origination system. The lead intake engine includes a lead processing module configured for processing sales leads, which includes enriching original dat...