ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,607, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Click-to-script reflection" was invented by Xiangnan Li (Gongzhuling, China), Marc Todd Friedman (Seattle), Wangchao Le (Redmond, Wash.) and Evgueni Zabokritski (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A click-to-script service enables developers of big-data job scripts to quickly see the underlying script operations from optimized execution plans. Once a big-data job is received, the disclosed examples compile it and generate tokens that are associated with each operation of the big-data job. These tokens include may include the file name...