US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 25 for "Fixing usages of deprecated APIs using large language models" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,484, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fixing usages of deprecated APIs using large language models" was invented by Max Schaefer (Kidlington, Great Britain) and Sarah Ezzeldin Mostafa Nadi (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for intelligently prompting an LLM to fix code are disclosed. A corpus of release notes for a set of libraries is accessed. The release notes include information describing deprecated or removed APIs associated with the libraries. The corpus is stored in a vector database. A code snippet is accessed. This snippet is identified as pote...