ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,176, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generation of multi-dimensional array of intermediate values in multiple code executions" was invented by Benjamin Goth Zorn (Woodinville, Wash.), Kasra Ferdowsifard (San Diego), John Herbert Martin Williams (Sheffield, Great Britain), Carina Suzana Negreanu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Donald Gordon (Cambridge, Great Britain), Advait Sarkar (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ian Zachariah Drosos (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Neil Blunt Toronto (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism to show how code is operating...