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Marie Van Brittan Brown and the home-security patent record

Brown's home-security route reads safety, household labor, television surveillance, and co-invention without making unsupported claims about every modern security system.

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Sprint 5 priority 7 / not final rankStatus: source_reviewedSource grade: A-

Patent: 3482037: Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance
Issue date: 1969-12-02
Place: Jamaica, New York
Record strength: Patent-record facts are attached with at least one public context source. CultureUp still separates patent proof from biography, adoption, commercialization, and identity claims.
Identity evidence: Public context source attached where available; CultureUp does not use the patent row alone as race, ancestry, lineage, or Indigenous Black identity proof.
Sprint priority: 7 / not final rank
Cluster: Health, accessibility, and home safety
Co-inventors: Albert L. Brown
Needed before promotion: Promotion language should remain limited until source-led context, assignment, co-inventor, and commercialization review is complete.
Why this record matters: The record connects household safety, surveillance technology, nursing schedules, and home-access public memory while preserving source limits.

What the public record supports

U.S. Patent No. 3482037, issued December 2, 1969.
Albert L. Brown as co-inventor.
Public context for Brown's home-security invention.

What remains open

Adoption and product-lineage evidence.
Public safety versus surveillance impact framing.
Additional local Queens source trail.

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The patent record

3482037 was issued on 1969-12-02 for Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance. The route preserves Albert L. Brown as co-inventor.

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Jamaica, New York is the public place anchor used for this route. CultureUp does not infer local family continuity from the patent row alone.

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modern_systems_candidateSprint priority 7Not public rankutility patenthigh

3482037: Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance

Marie Van Brittan Brown / 1969-12-02

Sprint 5 modern systems candidate. The record preserves Albert L. Brown as co-inventor and does not turn the patent into a complete history of modern surveillance.

Residence: Jamaica, New York
Category: home security / television surveillance
Source status: high
Chronology handling: modern_systems_candidate
Cluster: Health, accessibility, and home safety
Co-inventors: Albert L. Brown
Primary sources: 2 mapped

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US3482037A - Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance

Google Patents / 1969 patent record

Supports: Shows Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown as inventors on a home security system patent published December 2, 1969.
Limit: The patent record verifies invention data, co-inventor names, and issue date. It does not by itself prove full identity, biography, adoption, modern product lineage, public-safety outcome, or economic benefit.
Last checked: 2026-06-09
Source URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3482037A/en

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