PatentBrief

Inventor

Douglas C Engelbart

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1970

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Years active

1970

Total patents

1

Most recent

1970

Domains

human-computer-interactioninput-devicespersonal-computinguxperipherals

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1970s
1

Patents

1

US 3541541·1970·Stanford Research Institute

The Computer Mouse — Invented 30 Years Before Anyone Cared

Douglas Engelbart's 1970 mouse patent at SRI describes the x-y position indicator he demonstrated in the 'Mother of All Demos' in 1968 — a pointing device that would sit unused in patents for 15 years before Apple made it mainstream.