ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,499, issued on March 31, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for code smell detection using transformer-based code representations with self-supervision by predicting reserved words" was invented by Amal Abdulrahman Alazba (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hamoud Ibrahim Aljamaan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad Rabah Alshayeb (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that for analyzing computer source code to detect code smells is disclosed. The method includes inputting, via processing circuit...