US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Software development artifact name generation" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,817, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Software development artifact name generation" was invented by Peter Groenewegen (Sammamish, Wash.), Priyan Vaithilingam (Allston, Mass.), Rohan Jagdish Malpani (Everett, Wash.) and Wenbo Wang (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments use specialized machine learning models to generate computing system artifact names which reflect actions, states, conditions, or other aspects of artifact functionality. Artifact creation mechanisms such as method extraction mechanisms, test creation mechanisms, and template extraction mech...