US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Transfer learning system for automated software engineering tasks" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,865, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transfer learning system for automated software engineering tasks" was invented by Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Dawn Drain (San Francisco), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer learning system is used for the development of neural transformer models pertaining to software engineering tasks. The transfer learning system trains source code domain neural transformer models with attention in various configurations on a large corpus of unsupervised training da...