ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,391, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Software development efficiency improvement engine" was invented by Rupam Ojha (Benares, India), Priyanka Aggarwal (Rohini, India), Apurba Ghosh (Bangalore, India), Srinivasan Ramanathan (Bangalore, India), Nirmala Shettar (Bangalore, India) and Inayath Mohamed (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first use case, a description of source code to be created is validated and used to form a prompt for a large language model (LLM). The prompt is provided to the LLM to generate an output. The output from the LLM is post-processed to generate the source code...