ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,126, issued on April 15, was assigned to OPEN WEAVER INC. (Miami).

"Methods and systems for search and ranking of code snippets using machine learning models" was invented by Ashok Balasubramanian (Chennai, India), Arul Reagan S (Chengalpattu District, India), Balaji Munusamy (Chennai, India) and Karthikeyan Krishnaswamy Raja (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically generating search list rankings of code snippets are provided. An exemplary method includes searching source code repositories to identify code snippets in response to a search query, assigning weight values to ranking parameters...