ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,182, issued on April 21.

"Construct-associated candidate tag for development-phase compiler requests" was invented by Sridhar Vembu (Tenkasi, India), Akshhayaa S (Guduvanchery, India), Joseph Sathya Kumar (Chennai, India), Balamurugan K E (Chennai, India), Suresh Kumar R (Chennai, India), Mohamed Ismail Kaja Mydeen (Sivakasi, India) and Ramesh Kumar Govindaraj (Rajapalayam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Construct-modification tags conveying development-phase compiler requests are introduced into source code to facilitate communication between developers, identify areas that need developer attention, send directives to a compi...