ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,415, issued on March 31, was assigned to Replit Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Intelligent and predictive modules for software development and coding using artificial intelligence and machine learning" was invented by Amjad Masad (Palo Alto, Calif.), Reza Shabani (San Francisco) and Samip Dahal (Canal Winchester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AI tool for writing computer code is generated by collecting code entry data from a plurality of remote computing devices, training a code completion network using the code entry data, wherein the code completion network is configured to predict one or more additional code entry activiti...