Inventor

Gary E Pittman

Patents indexed

Year range

1966

Associated with

Years active

1966

Total patents

Most recent

1966

Frequent collaborator

James R Biard

Domains

semiconductorstelecommunicationsconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

1960s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1966

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How the First Infrared LED Was Invented

Texas Instruments' 1962 patent for the first practical semiconductor diode that emits infrared light when electricity passes through it.

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