US Patent Issued to Helix on Sept. 1 for "Automated code documentation" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,607, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Helix Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Automated code documentation" was invented by William Das (New York) and Magnus Isaksson (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method of automatically documenting a codebase. In an embodiment, a mediator partitions a codebase comprising a plurality of software objects into subsets according to a hierarchical structure where software objects of higher layers have code dependencies with software objects of lower layers, submit the subsets of the software objects and context information for the software objects to a code documentation gene...