Patent ID: 7840497

Claim:
A process for obtaining financing, the process comprising: forming a single-purpose business entity (SPE), with at least one operating requirement that establishes separateness of the single-purpose business entity from one or more separate business entities; transferring the one or more separate business entities' facility or equipment lease obligations to the SPE; assigning rights to revenues of the facility or equipment to the SPE; forming a lessee relationship with the single-purpose entity wherein a third party pays the revenues to the SPE; obtaining a rating from a rating agency, wherein the rating agency computes, in a programmed machine, a credit rating for the financing using a formula that has as a parameter the revenues of the SPE, the computed credit rating being superior to a credit rating available to the one or more business entities; and securing bond financing for the facility or equipment on a basis of the computed credit rating including issuing bonds with a rating established at least in part in view of a facility or equipment.