# Fairchild Semiconductor Corp — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Fairchild Semiconductor Corp has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Robert Noyce Invented the Modern Integrated Circuit](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/2981877/noyce-planar-integrated-circuit) — granted 1961
  Robert Noyce's 1959 patent for a semiconductor device that uses evaporated metal leads to connect components directly on a single silicon chip.

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