US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 18 for "Multi-lingual line-of-code completion system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,533, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-lingual line-of-code completion system" was invented by Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.), Shengyu Fu (Redmond, Wash.), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Shao Kun Deng (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code completion tool uses a neural transformer model to generate candidate sequences to complete a line of source code. The neural transformer model is trained using a conditional language modeling objective on a large unsupervised dataset that includes source code programs written in several different prog...