US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Context aware code snippet recommendation" (California, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,690, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context aware code snippet recommendation" was invented by Mu Qiao (San Jose, Calif.), Martin G. Keen (Durham, N.C.) and Jeremy R. Fox (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A context aware code snippet recommendation method, system, and computer program product that includes generating comments for source code, learning semantically meaningful sentence embeddings based on the comments, and retrieving code snippets from the source code based on the learned semantically meaningful sentence embeddings."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, ...