ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,053, issued on March 17, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Contextual test code generation" was invented by Adrian Tran (Issaquah, Wash.) and Sichao Wang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one unit of a software application is identified. The at least one unit includes source code. The source code of the at least one unit is analyzed to determine a style of the source code. Metadata is extracted from the at least one unit based on the source code analysis. One or more features of the extracted metadata are classified. A template file is modified based on the extracted metadata and the classified...