ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,520, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Autocomplete apparatus, autocomplete method and program" was invented by Shmuel Ur (Galil, Israel), Ziv Glazberg (Ramat Gan, Israel), Ran Lehr (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Erez Keinan (Rishon Le-zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autocomplete apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to output a suggestion of a low-level language code corresponding to a high-level language code when a programmer converts the high-level language code into the low-level language code; and perform learning based on whether the suggestion is adopted by the programmer."

The pat...