ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,876, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Coding output" was invented by Ian Paul Wright (Oxford, Great Britain) and Albert Ziegler (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a source code change; computing a distribution of standard coding durations using a model that takes as input features of source code changes; and computing a representative duration for the code change using the distribution of standard coding durations, wherein the representative duration represents a measu...