ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,396, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identification of relevant code block within relevant software package for a query" was invented by Carl Emil Orm Wareus (Malmo, Sweden), Nils Valdemar Barr Zeilon (Kista, Sweden) and Per Filip Heden (Kista, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database stores, for each of a number of software packages, a software package embedding representing the software package. The database stores, for each software package, code block embeddings respectively representing code blocks of the software package. The database stores, for each software package, function...