US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 27 for "Modifying source code using generative models" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,451, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Modifying source code using generative models" was invented by Jacint Szabo (Zurich), Vojta Letal (Zurich), Krzysztof Gorgolewski (New York) and Yi-Xuan Tan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for using GMs such as LLMs to generate and/or modify source code. In various implementations, a modification made to either a source code comment or a snippet of source code that is referenced by the source code comment may be detected in first rendered GM output. A first GM prompt may be assembled to include data in...