Date/Time:
      May 14, 2023
      All Day

Engineer and inventor extraordinaire, Marion Rogers Croak is one of the first two Black women to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, an honor in part for her patent regarding VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology. Her invention allows users to make calls over the internet instead of a phone line. Today, the widespread use of VoIP technology is vital for remote work and conferencing for services like Zoom, Skype, and many others.

After attending college at Princeton University and USC, Croak joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1982, where she worked in a variety of positions for over three decades, culminating her tenure there as Senior Vice President of Research and Development. She is currently Vice President of Engineering at Google and holds more than 200 patents.

On October 21, 2020, Dr. Croak, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, and an online audience discussed her decades of work on advanced technologies for voice and data networks and the internet. The following is a video recording of that discussion:

Read more about Dr. Marion Rogers Croak on the “Amazing Black History” website.

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