This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent. Top assignee: Combinenet, Inc.. Active years: 2010.
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Company Filing History:
Years Active: 2010
Title: Wolfram Conen and Combinatorial Auction Innovation.
Introduction
Wolfram Conen is an inventor associated with Velbert, Germany. His work includes a patent on preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions, a method for narrowing down possible outcomes in complex trading settings.
Latest Patents
Conen is credited with 1 patent: “Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions.” The invention concerns forward auctions, reverse auctions, and exchanges in which multiple possible allocations define trades between buyers and sellers. It queries a potential buyer about preferences concerning an allocation or related bundle, then uses the buyer’s response to eliminate allocations that are infeasible or not optimal. The process repeats until a specified criterion is met, after which one of the remaining allocations is selected as the winner.
Career Highlights
The patent reflects an approach to auction design that uses targeted preference information to reduce the set of candidate allocations. Conen is associated with Combinenet, Inc.
Collaborations
Conen’s listed coworker is Tuomas Sandholm, whose work is also associated with combinatorial auctions and computational market design.
Conclusion
Wolfram Conen’s patent addresses a practical challenge in combinatorial auctions by using buyer preferences to identify a suitable winning allocation.
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