US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Using a complex value-bearing language expression to generate metadata associated with an artifact" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,394, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using a complex value-bearing language expression to generate metadata associated with an artifact" was invented by Matteo Prosperi (Seattle), Bertan Aygun (Issaquah, Wash.) and Jason Malinowski (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of using a complex value-bearing language expression to generate metadata associated with an artifact. The artifact is configured to define a type and to further define the complex value-bearing language expression. The artifact is built from source code. Th...