ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,030, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-lingual code generation with zero-shot inference" was invented by Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Shuai Lu (Beijing), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.), Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.) and Duyu Tang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural transformer model with attention is trained to predict candidates to complete a line of source code with a zero-inference capability. The model is trained on an unsupervised training dataset that includes features from source code written in multiple programming languages. The fea...