US Patent Issued to MERCARI on Nov. 11 for "Electronic marketplace curve sales transaction system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,059, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MERCARI INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Electronic marketplace curve sales transaction system" was invented by Colin Smith (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Lagerling (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Carlo Besozzi (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments for a transport dispatch system for marketplace curve sales transaction system are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a seller, an indication to sell a for sale item through an electronic marketplace. An item curve for the for sale item and a seller curve for the seller are generated. A sales curve is gener...