Patent 7353502 was granted and assigned to The Mathworks on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A tool for automatically generating Component Object Model (COM) components for use in COM-compliant application from functions developed in a MATLAB programming environment. The tool receives as an input a component name and a selection of source code files which define functions. The tool processes the source code files to produce as an output a component having the selected component name. The component provides a binary interface through which application programs perform run-time function calls on the functions.