Guillermo González Camarena developed a system for color television in “un modesto taller-laboratorio en el sótano de la casa de sus padres” (a modest workshop and laboratory in the basement of his parents’ house), according to the ILCE, the Latin American Institute for Educational Communication.
According to the Gaceta UNAM, he patented it in Mexico in 1940 and in the United States two years later. Another source gives 1940 for both patents.