US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 22 for "Program improvement using large language models" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,411, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Program improvement using large language models" was invented by Jialu Zhang (New Haven, Conn.), Jose Pablo Cambronero Sanchez (New Haven, Conn.), Gustavo Araujo Soares (Seattle), Vu Minh Le (Redmond, Wash.), Sumit Gulwani (Sammamish, Wash.) and Gust Ben Anneloes Verbruggen (Keerbergen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments generate prompts and submit them in queries to a language model trained on code to perform automated program repair. Some embodiments fix syntactic mistakes and semantic mistakes by combining multimodal ...