Editing J. Presper Eckert (section)

==Entrepreneurship==
Both Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School in March 1946 over a dispute involving assignment of claims on intellectual property developed at the university. In that year, the University of Pennsylvania adopted a new patent policy to protect the intellectual purity of the research it sponsored, which would have required Eckert and Mauchly to assign all their patents to the university had they stayed beyond March.{{Citation needed|reason=This claim needs a reliable source; Penn state has 2 easily accessible areas discussing their patent policy on their website; "Intellectual Property Policies" and "Patent and Tangible Research Property Policies and Procedures". Both of these resources contain a dated list of revisions and updates, however neither references a change to their patent policy in 1964.|date=February 2025}}

Eckert and Mauchly's agreement with the University of Pennsylvania was that Eckert and Mauchly retained the patent rights to the ENIAC but the university could license it to the government and non-profit organizations. The university wanted to change the agreement so that they would also have commercial rights to the patent.

In the following months, Eckert and Mauchly started up the [[Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation|Electronic Control Company]] which built the Binary Automatic Computer ([[BINAC]]). One of the major advances of this machine, which was used from August 1950, was that data was stored on [[magnetic tape]]. The Electronic Control Company soon became the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and it received an order from the [[National Bureau of Standards]] to build the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). Eckert was awarded the [[The Franklin Institute Awards|Howard N. Potts Medal]] in 1949. In 1950, Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation ran into financial troubles and was acquired by [[Remington Rand]] Corporation. The [[UNIVAC I]] was finished on December 21, 1950.

In 1968, "For pioneering and continuing contributions in creating, developing, and improving the high-speed electronic digital computer", Eckert was awarded the [[National Medal of Science]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=115|title=The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details|publisher=[[National Science Foundation]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814091310/https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=115|archive-date=August 14, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>