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Andre Henderson

U.S. patent #5,603,078 granted on February 11 1997

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Andre Henderson

Andre Henderson invented a remote control device with credit card reading and transmission capabilities.

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Andre Henderson had the following to say about his experience as an inventor, "I worked on the first store and forward video on demand systems used in the lodging industry, it was a joint venture betweem Micropolis, EDS and SpectraVision/Spectradyne. That technology led to the on demand movies used in homes today. The conception and hardware design were mine, and the other engineers ((co-inventors William H Fuller, James M Rotenberry) worked on the software; one wrote the code for the remote control, the other wrote code for the remote control to work in the video distribution system.
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