ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,023, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Compilation and execution of source code as services" was invented by Robert Lovejoy Goodwin (Mercer Island, Wash.), Janaina Barreiro Gambaro Bueno (Redmond, Wash.), Sitaramaswamy V. Lanka (Mercer Island, Wash.), Dragos Barac (Sammamish, Wash.), Javier Garcia Flynn (Perth, Australia), Pedram Faghihi Rezaei (Seattle) and Karthik Pattabiraman (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to compilation of source code into services. One example method involves receiving input source code, identifying data dependencies ...