US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 1 for "Automation of software test case generation and implementation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,699, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automation of software test case generation and implementation" was invented by Igor Bragaia (Redmond, Wash.), Judenique Brierna Auguste (Redmond, Wash.), Alycia Yohsuan Habo Lee (Redmond, Wash.) and Laurentiu Titi Nedelcu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enhance software testing through automated test case generation and implementation. This is accomplished through utilizing a natural language interface and a generative probabilistic model, such as a large language model. A first user input can ...