US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Notebook for navigating code using machine learning and flow analysis" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,663, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Notebook for navigating code using machine learning and flow analysis" was invented by Brian Paul Kroth (Madison, Wis.) and Jordan Joseph Henkel (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code notebook and backend cloud service are configured to intelligently analyze program source code that a developer wants analyzed. A user drafts a code query to be answered about the source code that may specify specific variables, code structure elements, and/or program flows to be scrutinized. A cloud-computing environment builds a code database o...