ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,735, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Syntax unit testing and fine-tuning of neural transcompilation models" was invented by Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Yufan Huang (Shanghai), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.), Yiding Tian (Shanghai) and Maoquan Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural transcompilation model is tested with a set of syntax unit tests to determine the syntax elements of a source code program written in a source programming language that fail to translate properly into a target programming language. The syntax elements having a translation de...