ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,885, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Virtual directory for source code navigation" was invented by Benjamin John McMorran (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual directory is created in a software development tool that lists the files having source code components (e.g., files, functions, methods, types, classes) of a codebase that relate to a user query about the codebase. The files of the codebase are partitioned into chunks with each chunk having a respective embedding. A search for the source code components relevant to the query is performed using an embed...