ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,854, issued on July 8, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Computer code generator" was invented by Samarth Sikand (Malviya Nagar, India), Kapil Singi (Bangalore, India), Kuntal Dey (Rampurhat, India), Vikrant Kaulgud (Pune, India), Vibhu Saujanya Sharma (Bangalore, India), Adam Patten Burden (Tampa, Fla.) and Ravi Kiran Velama (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method for generating computer code for a plurality of components of a software development project. An artificial intelligence code generator can generate computer code in response to a natural language tex...