# Nikola Tesla — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Nikola Tesla has 2 landmark patents explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [Nikola Tesla's Early System for Electric Lighting](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/454622/tesla-coil-electric-lighting) — granted 1891
  A 19th-century patent by Nikola Tesla describing an early method for distributing and regulating electric light using high-frequency alternating current.
- [How Nikola Tesla Invented the Modern AC Electric Motor](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/382280/tesla-ac-motor) — granted 1888
  Nikola Tesla's 1888 patent for an induction motor that uses rotating magnetic fields to convert electricity into mechanical motion without needing physical brushes.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/nikola-tesla

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_Source: PatentBrief — https://patentbrief.org. Plain-English explanations of US patents._