# Douglas C Engelbart — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Douglas C Engelbart has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Computer Mouse](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/3541541/computer-mouse-input-device) — granted 1970
  The 1970 patent for the X-Y position indicator, better known as the computer mouse, which allowed users to move a cursor across a screen for the first time.

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