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  "patent_number": "US 1647",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Samuel Morse Patented the Electric Telegraph System",
  "original_title": "Improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals by the",
  "summary": "Samuel Morse's 1840 patent for the electric telegraph, which enabled long-distance communication by sending electrical pulses over wires to represent letters.",
  "what_it_does": "The patent describes a system for transmitting information using electrical signals sent through a wire circuit. It uses a transmitter to break and close an electrical circuit, creating pulses that travel to a receiver. The receiver then records these pulses as marks on a moving strip of paper, allowing a human operator to translate the patterns into readable text.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover wireless radio or electromagnetic wave transmission",
    "Does not cover modern digital data encoding or internet protocols",
    "Does not cover voice transmission or telephony"
  ],
  "filed": null,
  "granted": "1840-06-20",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Samuel F. B. Morse",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/samuel-f-b-morse",
  "inventors": [],
  "times_cited": 8,
  "tags": [
    "telecommunications",
    "mechanical"
  ],
  "abstract": null,
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/1647/morse-telegraph",
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