ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,320, issued on May 26, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Answering a query about source code by augmenting the query with information retrieved using code metadata similar to the query" was invented by Guru Selvaraj (Telangana, India), Kyasaram Vishwa Prasad (Telangana, India), Jagannadha Prasad Srinivas Vadlamani (Telangana, India) and Leena Daptardar (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for intelligent code integration, deployment, and analysis. An example intelligent code analysis system is configured to access and maint...