Microsoft collects a pair of patents
InternetNews | at | by Mike
The United States Patent and Trade Office has granted Microsoft a pair of software patents, one that deals with software compilation and another that addresses software editing.
U.S. Patent number 6,836,883 is titled "Method and system for compiling multiple languages" and was first applied for by Microsoft researchers on June 21, 2000.
A USPTO abstract on the newly-granted patent explains it as "a method and system for compiling multiple source language files that share a common library."