US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "AI-driven pull request summarization" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,819, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"AI-driven pull request summarization" was invented by Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.), Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.), Michele Tufano (Bellevue, Wash.) and Shuo Zhang (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven pull request summarization system utilizes a large language model to classify the code changes of a pull request and to generate a summary of the changes contained in the pull request. The large language model predicts the pull request classification and summarization given a pr...