US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Identifying the translatability of hard-coded strings in source code via POS tagging" (Taiwanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,225, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identifying the translatability of hard-coded strings in source code via POS tagging" was invented by Jin Shi (Ningbo, China), Chih-Yuan Lin (Xindian Dist., Taiwan), Shu-Chih Chen (Banqiao Dist., Taiwan), Pei-Yi Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chao Yuan Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying hard-coded strings in source code is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method parses source code and associated localization resource files to identify hard-coded strings and their associated context. The me...