ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,518, issued on April 22, was assigned to SuSea Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for a search tool of code snippets" was invented by Richard Socher (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Bryan McCann (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application generally relates to search engines, and more specifically to systems and methods for a search tool for code snippets. Embodiment described herein provide a customized code search system that generates code search results from customized data sources, extract code snippets from the code search results, and presents the code snippets via a user interface. In one embodi...