US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on May 27 for "Code search for examples to augment model prompt" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,301, issued on May 27, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Code search for examples to augment model prompt" was invented by Shubham Chandel (Vancouver, Canada), Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Shengyu Fu (Redmond, Wash.) and Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user query for information regarding data of a codebase is answered by a large language model given a prompt that includes examples of code segments from the codebase that are similar to the user query. The code segments from the codebase are associated with metadata that includes both natural language text ...