# Gary E Pittman — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Gary E Pittman has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How the First Infrared LED Was Invented](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/3293513/infrared-led-biard-pittman) — granted 1966
  Texas Instruments' 1962 patent for the first practical semiconductor diode that emits infrared light when electricity passes through it.

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