US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Pre-training for automating code review activities" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,707, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Pre-training for automating code review activities" 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 deep learning model is pre-trained with a large-scale of unsupervised data of code review tasks in order to learn the relationships between code changes and a code review. The pre-trained deep learning model predicts a code review given a code diff hunk in a code diff format. The code diff hunk ...