ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,461, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Source code history generation" was invented by William Tigard Baker (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatically generating a change history of source code using a generative artificial intelligence ("AI") system. In examples, a generative AI system receives a request inquiring about one or more changes made to software code of a software service or application. In response to receiving the request, the generative AI system navigates one or more information sources to collect code change context relev...