ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,920, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Laredo Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method that uses machine-learning models to assist with performing software engineering tasks" was invented by Mark Gabel (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel Lord (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a request from a software developer's issue tracker or code editor to perform a software engineering task, and outputs an issue report which describes the software engineering task and/or source code for performing the software engineering task to the software developer. The system stores the software developer's update of the...