US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Inline conversation with artificial intelligence within code editor user interface" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,906, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inline conversation with artificial intelligence within code editor user interface" was invented by Peter Groenewegen (Sammamish, Wash.) and Rohan Jagdish Malpani (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system provides a context for a source code document to an artificial intelligence (AI) model and obtains a first suggested edit at a first source code location. At a code editor user interface (UI), the computer system presents a first chat indicator at the first source code location. Based on user interaction with the firs...