ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,040, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Veracode Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Generative artificial intelligence driven software fixing" was invented by Roman Rudenko (Vienna) and Anna Bacher (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generative artificial intelligence (AI) driven code fixing pipeline has been created that uses a transformer-based large language model (LLM) to patch flawed program code. A pre-trained LLM is fine-tuned to generate a response that is a modified version of a code fragment in a prompt to the pre-trained model. After fine-tuning, the pre-trained LLM (hereinafter "code fix model") is integrated into a pipeline...