US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Neural method completion based on natural language and source code" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,034, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Neural method completion based on natural language and source code" was invented by Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Dawn Drain (Bellevue, Wash.), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code completion tool uses a neural transformer model with attention to generate candidate sequences to complete a method body of a method signature. The neural transformer model is trained with source code programs and natural language text. The neural transformer model learns the meani...