ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,932, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Presented code generation options for data structures" was invented by Yi Liu (Woodinville, Wash.), Kristen Oshiro (Portland, Ore.), David Boyd Ludwig IV (Seattle), Alexander Drotar (Seattle), Niraj Yadav (Bothell, Wash.), Yu Hu (Sammamish, Wash.), Haiyuan Cao (Issaquah, Wash.), Haoran Wei (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jeremiah A. Nyman (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assisting a user with the discovery of program features is provided. The method includes detecting a selection of a data structure within a user interface,...