US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 1 for "Software development language model prompt engineering" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,590, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Software development language model prompt engineering" was invented by Benjamin John McMorran (Redmond, Wash.), Ion Todirel (Bellevue, Wash.) and Bogdan Ionut Mihalcea (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments engineer a prompt for submission to a language model, such as a software development large language model. Some embodiments ascertain a relationship between code development information and potential context. Code development information includes static analysis results, project settings, development tool histo...