ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,657, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Capturing edit semantics to improve merge outcomes" was invented by Paul Jerome Kwiatkowski (Woodinville, Wash.), Taylor Williams (Seattle), Daniel Ryan Lehenbauer (Kenmore, Wash.) and Yann Achard (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically resolving incompatible changes made by different users to collaborative content by capturing changes in the form of command records, where the command records store user changes as context associated with a user command related content such as a recursive record of the comm...