US Patent Issued to Salesforce on May 26 for "Systems and methods for retrieval-augmented patch generation for automatic program repair" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,193, issued on May 26, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for retrieval-augmented patch generation for automatic program repair" was invented by Yue Wang (Singapore), Weishi Wang (Singapore), Shafiq Rayhan Joty (Singapore) and Chu Hong Hoi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic program repair using neural network models are described. After a first buggy code patch is received, a first representation of the first buggy code patch is generated using a retriever encoder of a patch retriever. The patch retriever retrieves, based on the first representation, a first b...