Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, filed for the patent in 1966 and received approval three years later.

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Marie Van Brittan Brown was born 1922, in Jamaica Queens, New York. She was an African American woman who invented the video home security system, along with her husband, Albert Brown. In the 1960s, ...

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