Computers -- Patents -- United States.

Collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand trial and John V. Atanasoff's recognition as the inventor of the electronic digital computer. Includes correspondence from historical researchers, awards committees, Atanasoff, and the patent counsel from Honeywell.

Collection includes abstracts of data processor patents primarily from class 364, subclass 200, 300, 518-523, 700-782, and 900 of the U.S. Patent Office classification. They include the areas of digital computer systems, programmable methods or procedures (software), control of data presentation, electrical digital calculating computers and miscellaneous digital data processing systems.