U.S. Patents held by Douglas C. Engelbart0

All Patents1

Date Patent No. Device 1a
08/12/58 2,847,603 glow discharge device. 1b
08/12/58 2,847,615 memory device. 1c
01/13/59 2,869,036 glow discharge device. 1d
02/02/60 2,923,853 electric discharge device. 1e
02/16/60 2,925,530 luminous display device. 1f
05/17/60 2,937,317 glow discharge devices. 1g
05/10/60 2,936,445 multiple-setting magnetic core circuits. inventors: david r. bennion and douglas c. engelbart. 1h
02/07/61 2,971,123 electronic discharge device. 1i
05/16/61 2,984,765 electric controlled information bearing device. 1j
01/14/61 3,009,136 flux-doubling in magnetic cores.inventors: david r. bennion, douglas c. engelbart, and e. k. van de riet. 1k
03/26/63 3,083,355 magnetic logic device. 1l
01/19/63 3,111,588 combined synthetic and multiaperture magnetic-core system. 1m
01/26/63 3,112,409 combined synthetic and multiaperture magnetic-core system. 1n
07/07/64 3,140,402 magnetic-core logic circuits. 1o
02/29/64 3,163,854 magnetic flux transfer in core systems. 1p
07/13/65 3,195,117 bipolar magnetic core circuit. 1q
09/21/65 3,208,052 bidirectional shift register utilizing flux pumping. inventors: douglas c. engelbart and david r. bennion. 1r
01/11/66 3,229,267 magnetic core device. inventors: douglas c. engelbart and lawrence g. wiley. 1s
02/13/66 3,292,163 magnetic-core logic circuits. 1t
03/26/68 3,375,505 magnetic flux transfer in core systems. 1u
01/17/70 3,541,541 x-y position indicator for a display system. 1v

The Mouse2

Doug Engelbart's patent on the mouse, filed June 21, 1967 and granted January 17, 1970, was described in the patent's Abstract as follows: "An X-Y position indicator control for movement by the hand over any surface to move a cursor over the display on a cathode ray tube, the indicator control generating signals indicating its position to cause a cursor to be displayed on the tube at the corresponding position. The indicator control mechanism contains X and Y position wheels mounted perpendicular to each other, which rotate according to the X and Y movements of the mechanism, and which operate rheostats to send signals along a wire to a computer which controls the CRT display."2a

Figures 1-3. Diagrams from the patent document.
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See a copy of the original Mouse Patent for the X-Y Position Indicator, a.k.a., the computer mouse, which can be found at the Stanford University MouseSite (go to the Archives, Table of Contents, and find "images of first mouse and u.s. patent on the computer mouse").2c