US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 25 for "Conversational unit test generation using large language model" (British, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,836, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Conversational unit test generation using large language model" was invented by Max Schaefer (Kidlington, Great Britain) and Albert Ziegler (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large language model, trained on source code and natural language text generates a unit test for a change to a file in a pull request of a code repository. An ordered sequence of prompts is created and each is applied serially to the large language model to perform an individual task that leads to the generation of the unit test. The unit test may be adde...