ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,918, issued on April 1, was assigned to ZestFinance Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enriching modeling tools and infrastructure with semantics" was invented by Douglas C. Merrill (Burbank, Calif.), Armen Donigian (Burbank, Calif.), Eran Dvir (Burbank, Calif.), Sean Javad Kamkar (Burbank, Calif.), Evan George Kriminger (Burbank, Calif.), Vishwaesh Rajiv (Burbank, Calif.), Michael Edward Ruberry (Burbank, Calif.), Ozan Sayin (Burbank, Calif.), Yachen Yan (Burbank, Calif.), Derek Wilcox (Burbank, Calif.), John Candido (Burbank, Calif.), Benjamin Anthony Solecki (Burbank, Calif.), Jiahuan He (Burbank, Calif.), Jerome Louis Budzik (Burbank, Calif.), John J. Beahan Jr. ...