ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,093, issued on March 3.
"Automated negotiation agent with opponent's behavior prediction" was invented by Claudio Lanfranchi (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software based intelligent agents performing automated negotiations for the generation of offers leading to settlements that maximize the utility. A set of opponent's models, which best represents the opponent's profile, behavior, and cognitive orientation, is paired to a set of hypothetical agents. The hypothetical agent and the associated opponent model bargains against each other to generate a hypothetical sequence of proposed agent's offers and predicted opponent's co...