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Article: Secret life of a legendary inventor. (Gilbert Hyatt, inventor of the microprocessor)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 29, 1990
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Secret life of a legendary inventor
Don't you hate getting hung out to dry?
Remember Eli Whitney. Others stole and copy-catted his cotton gin's operating principle. Powerful interests fought him over royalties. Although granted a patent in 1794, he earned only small change on his epic invention.
Gilbert Hyatt will tell you things haven't changed.
"I've got some real big guys breathing down my neck," said the Los Angeles-area inventor, who woved high-techdom by winning a patent in July for the microprocessor - the computer on a chip that's probably inside your watch, in your VCR and maybe in your pacemaker.
So who are the "guys" ...