ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,247, issued on May 20.

"Transformer-based programming code value quantification system" was invented by Marek Dziubinski (Warsaw, Poland) and Tomasz Mularczyk (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for code value assessment. For example, in one aspect, the system comprises, an input module configured to receive program code submissions from developers, a processing unit equipped with Text-Based Models with Contextual Understanding (TBM-CUs) configured to evaluate the functional meaning, purpose, and value of submitted code segments and distinguish between code cont...