US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 14 for "Semantic matching of search queries against a target code" (California, Virginia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,703, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Semantic matching of search queries against a target code" was invented by Pranav Garg (Secaucus, N.J.), Yanjun Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benjamin Robert Liblit (Leesburg, Va.) and Omer Tripp (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search language is provided for writing rules that allow semantic and syntactic checking of source code to find potential errors in a target code. The language allows for wildcards (also called placeholders), which provide a more expansive matching of search terms. A compiler is described that converts a search langua...