ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,968, issued on June 23, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Automatic validation of computer-generated code method and apparatus" was invented by Eric Bax (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Arundhyoti Sarkar (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.) and Ruchita Garde (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatically generating a natural language (NL) translation of computer code are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed comprising receiving, from a user, a code translation request in connection with code generated by a code generation system based on natural language (NL) input, analyzi...