ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,815, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Laredo Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method that assists with writing source code for software engineering tasks" was invented by Mark Gabel (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel Lord (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system stores a source code change, at a location in source code associated with a software engineering task, received from a software developer's code editor. The system receives a request from the code editor for predicted source code changes at a source code location, and retrieves context data which establishes the software engineering task's context. The sy...