PatentBrief

Inventor

Ralph H Baer

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1972

Associated with

Years active

1972

Total patents

1

Most recent

1972

Frequent collaborator

William T Rusch

Domains

consumer_electronicsgamingmechanical

Activity by decade

1970s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1972

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19721973

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US 3659285·1972·Sanders Associates Inc

How the First Home Video Game Console Worked

Ralph Baer's 1969 patent for the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game system, which generated controllable dots on a standard television screen using analog circuitry.

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