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Craig E. Boutilier — 13 Patents

COCombinenet: 8 patents #4 of 19Top 25%
Google: 4 patents #6,467 of 22,993Top 30%
SCSciquest: 1 patents #6 of 18Top 35%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,842 of 9,675 inventorsTop 20%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Craig E. Boutilier has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Combinenet. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in September 2025. Craig E. Boutilier ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Craig E. Boutilier in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2009.peak 22006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 2 patents20102013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents20142017: 1 patents20172022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12406205 Systems and methods for simulating a complex reinforcement learning environment Tze Way Eugene Ie, Sanmit Santosh Narvekar 2025-09-02
11915130 Mitigating delusional bias in deep Q-learning for robotic and/or other agents Tyler Lu, Boon Teik Ooi, Dale Eric Schuurmans, DiJia Su 2024-02-27 $97,983,000
11475355 Systems and methods for simulating a complex reinforcement learning environment Tze Way Eugene Ie, Sanmit Santosh Narvekar 2022-10-18 $56,365,000
9727653 System and method for identifying and ranking user preferences Tian Lu 2017-08-08 $14,885,000
8732047 System and method for contract execution against expressive contracts Tuomas Sandholm, David C. Parkes, Subhash Suri, Jason Brown, Luc H. Mercier 2014-05-20
8515814 Automated channel abstraction for advertising auctions George L. Nemhauser, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm, Robert L. Shields, William E. Walsh 2013-08-20
8494935 System and method for payment reconciliation against expressive contracts Tuomas Sandholm, David C. Parkes, Subhash Suri, Jason Brown, Luc H. Mercier 2013-07-23
7844540 Concisely expressed combinatorial auction problem solving method 2010-11-30
7835980 Bidding language for combinatorial auctions and method of use thereof Holger H. Hoos 2010-11-16
7487124 Method and apparatus for solving concisely expressed combinatorial auction problems 2009-02-03
7475035 Bidding language for combinatorial auctions and method of use thereof Holger H. Hoos 2009-01-06
7353191 Method and apparatus for selecting a desirable allocation of bids in a combinatorial exchange setting Tuomas Sandholm, Robert L. Shields 2008-04-01
7010505 Method of selecting one or more bids in a combinatorial auction Holger H. Hoos 2006-03-07