US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 21 for "Actor-critique code-to-code translation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,025, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Actor-critique code-to-code translation" was invented by Dinesh Khandelwal (Indore, India), Varad Bhatnagar (Bangalore, India), Saswati Dana (Bangalore, India), Amar Prakash Azad (Bangalore, India) and Dinesh Garg (Beawar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of translation include performing a search of translation hypotheses for input source code in a first programming language to a second programming language. A constraint is extracted from the input source code. The constraint is applied to the translation hypotheses...