US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Code adaptation through deep learning" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,187, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Code adaptation through deep learning" was invented by Miltiadis Allamanis (Cambridge, Great Britain), Shengyu Fu (Redmond, Wash.), Xiaoyu Liu (Sammamish, Wash.), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code adaptation mechanism automatically integrates the variable names of a pasted source code snippet into variable names defined in a pre-existing partial source code program. The variable names from the pasted source code snippet are replaced with anonymized values...