ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,181, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generation of synthetic training data using grammar mapping" was invented by Konstantin Andreyevich Golobokov (Seattle), Zeqi Lin (Beijing), Haizhen Zhang (Bothell, Wash.), Yu Hu (Sammamish, Wash.), Yousef Ahmed Al-Kofahi (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jonathan Richard Malsan (Redmond, Wash.), Haiyuan Cao (Issaquah, Wash.) and Daniel Akintola Fatade (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automatic generation of synthetic training data that can be used to train a language model to generate code examples following a code language based on a natural...