Its inventors, Thomas T Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann, submitted a patent for it on this day in 1947. The game was based on WW2 radar screens, and appears to be similar to the 1980 Atari classic ...

the Falcon "MicroBox" is mentioned as part of the PlayStation 2's patent (US D450,318 S), which has a series of seven images describing the "ornamental design" that Sony purchased from Atari.