# Battelle Development Corp — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Battelle Development Corp has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How James Russell Invented the Digital Optical Disc](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/3501586/optical-digital-recording-russell) — granted 1970
  A 1966 invention that replaced physical needles on vinyl records with a laser beam reading digital data from a spinning disc.

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