ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,252, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine learning model management and software development integration" was invented by Patrick W. J. Evans (Fall City, Wash.) and Debadeepta Dey (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, a declaration of an ML model is identified within source code of a software project. As a result, a model wrapper may be generated for the ML model and used when compiling and/or executing the software code. Further, a representative object may be generated to enable management of the ML model during the software development process. As an...