ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,745, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Performing code completion using data flow" was invented by Wenting Zhao (Ithaca, N.Y.), Ibrahim Abdelaziz (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Julian Timothy Dolby (Bronx, N.Y.) and Kavitha Srinivas (Port Chester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corpus of source code from a code database is accessed and a language prediction model is trained based on the corpus of source code. A given program is accessed and a completion of a given line of the given program is predicted by performing inferencing using the language prediction model and at least a porti...