US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 1 for "Language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator" (American, Croatian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,789, issued on April 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator" was invented by Rohan Jayesh Bavishi (Berkeley, Calif.), Jose Pablo Cambronero Sanchez (New Haven, Conn.), Anna Fariha (Redmond, Wash.), Sumit Gulwani (Sammamish, Wash.), Vu Minh Le (Redmond, Wash.), Ivan Radicek (Zagreb, Croatia), Daniel Galen Simmons (Sammamish, Wash.) and Ashish Tiwari (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of creating a language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator. A context-free grammar is...