[deport]

Lewis Howard Latimer was an American inventor and patent
draftsman for the patents of the light bulb and telephone.

[ConservativeMind]

“Latimer received a patent on January 17, 1882 for the “Process of Manufacturing Carbons”, an improved method for the production of lightbulb carbon filaments.[8][9]

The Edison Electric Light Company in New York City hired Latimer in 1884, as a draftsman and an expert witness in patent litigation on electric lights.”

A better background on the light bulb’s progress is here:
https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html

Edison made the first commercially viable light bulb some years before Latimer was on the scene.

[Vaduz]

Latimer received a patent on January 17, 1882 for the “Process of Manufacturing Carbons”

[Robert A Cook PE]

ONLY WHEN YOU REWRITE history:

The light bulb

Latimer received a patent on January 17, 1882 for the “Process of Manufacturing Carbons”, an improved method for the production of lightbulb carbon filaments.[8][9]

The Edison Electric Light Company in New York City hired Latimer in 1884, as a draftsman and an expert witness in patent litigation on electric lights. While at Edison, Latimer wrote the first book on electric lighting, Incandescent Electric Lighting (1890)[10] and supervised the installation of public electric lights throughout New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London.[11] When that company was combined in 1892 with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric, he continued to work in the legal department. In 1911, he became a patent consultant to law firms.[12] Now, a "patent draftsman" - employed BY the company that is developing and having to invent the entire light bulb system (wires, glass, seals, fuses, switches, vacuum and sockets, generators and connections) only becomes "the inventor of the light bulb" in a black studies classroom dominated by a black studies mystic (er, mistake). Inventing ( getting a patent for a single new type of carbon filament ) is good thing - and I congratulate him for it. But Latimer did NOT "invent the light bulb." He DID invent a better make to make one small part of a competing light bulb filament. And, in the long, run, they did not even use carbon filaments in the final product!