US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Customized prompt generation service for software engineering tasks" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,374, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Customized prompt generation service for software engineering tasks" was invented by Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Shengyu Fu (Redmond, Wash.), Spandan Garg (Seattle), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.), Dongjiang You (Kirkland, Wash.) and Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customized prompt generation service automates prompts to a large language model to perform a specified software engineering task. The service stores the custom data of a client that includes code diff hunks, source code...