Promotional announcements described the offering as a joint effort between Westinghouse and its International Radio Telegraph subsidiary, and A . E . Braun, an International Radio Telegraph officer who was also the president of the " Pittsburgh Sun ", made the arrangements for his newspaper to provide election results to the station.
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In order to strengthen the company's patent position, especially related to receivers, he spearheaded the purchase of the International Radio Telegraph Company, primarily to gain control of a " heterodyne " patent originally issued to Reginald Fessenden, and also arranged for the purchase of the commercial rights to the superheterodyne patents held by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
