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Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Combinenet, Inc.

USPTO Granted Patents = 22

% Expired Patents = 40.9

Forward Citations = 116

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19 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Tuomas Sandholm (17 out of 27 patents)

Subhash Suri (13 out of 16 patents)

Robert L Shields, Jr (9 out of 9 patents)

4. David Christopher Parkes (8 out of 13 patents)

5. Craig Edgar Boutilier (8 out of 11 patents)

6. David L Levine (8 out of 8 patents)

7. Vincent Conitzer (7 out of 7 patents)

8. Yuri V Smirnov (4 out of 9 patents)

9. Holger H Hoos (3 out of 3 patents)

10. Richard James McKenzie (2 out of 5 patents)

11. Christopher Cole (2 out of 2 patents)

12. Benjamin Schmaus (2 out of 2 patents)

13. Andrew G Gilpin (2 out of 2 patents)

14. Jason J Brown (1 out of 2 patents)

15. Luc H Mercier (1 out of 2 patents)

22 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 8515814 - Automated channel abstraction for advertising auctions (2013-08-20),

2. 8494935 - System and method for payment reconciliation against expressive contracts (2013-07-23),

3. 8195524 - Items ratio based price/discount adjustment in a combinatorial auction (2012-06-05),

4. 8190490 - Overconstraint detection, rule relaxation and demand reduction in a combinatorial exchange (2012-05-29),

5. 8190489 - Bid modification based on logical connections between trigger groups in a combinatorial exchange (2012-05-29),

6. 8165921 - Dynamic exchange method and apparatus (2012-04-24),

7. 8060433 - Method of determining an exchange allocation that promotes truthful bidding and improves the obtainment of exchange objectives (2011-11-15),

8. 7844540 - Concisely expressed combinatorial auction problem solving method (2010-11-30),

9. 7835980 - Bidding language for combinatorial auctions and method of use thereof (2010-11-16),

10. 7783529 - Market clearability in combinatorial auctions and exchanges (2010-08-24),

11. 7742971 - Preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions (2010-06-22),

12. 7716110 - Branch on bid searching method and apparatus (2010-05-11),

13. 7716101 - Method for optimal winner determination in combinatorial auctions (2010-05-11),

14. 7640189 - Combinatorial auction branch on bid searching method and apparatus (2009-12-29),

15. 7610236 - Method and apparatus for forming expressive combinatorial auctions and exchanges (2009-10-27),

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Sep 15 2026

Combinenet, Inc.

22 Patents

#110 in Pittsburgh, PA

#547 in Pennsylvania

#15,001 in US

#28,690 in the World

Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Combinenet, Inc.

Forward Citations = 116

19 inventors:

Tuomas Sandholm (17 out of 27 patents)

Subhash Suri (13 out of 16 patents)

Robert L Shields, Jr (9 out of 9 patents)

4. David Christopher Parkes (8 out of 13 patents)

5. Craig Edgar Boutilier (8 out of 11 patents)

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