ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,154, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Code execution trace generation with pre-trained large language model" was invented by Nan Duan (Beijing), Shengyu Fu (Redmond, Wash.), Shuai Lu (Beijing), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large language model, previously pre-trained on multiple source code modeling tasks, is pre-trained, through curriculum learning, to learn to predict a code execution trace given a source code program. The model is pre-trained using a variety of pre-training datasets consistin...