ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,477, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Query response generation in a developer tool using semantically related keywords in relevant code chunks" was invented by Andrea Caitlyn Mah (Burnaby, Canada), SteVen Michael Batten (Renton, Wash.) and Daniel John Imms (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of responding to a query in a developer tool using semantically related keywords in relevant code chunks. A user-generated query regarding a location of an element in a codebase of a software development project is received. The co...