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Inventor

Jack S Kilby

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1964

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1964

Total patents

1

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1964

Domains

semiconductorsconsumer_electronicsmechanical

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1960s
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1 patents, in 1964

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US 3138743·1964·Texas Instruments Inc

How Jack Kilby Invented the First Integrated Circuit

Texas Instruments' 1959 patent for the first integrated circuit, which combined transistors and resistors on a single piece of semiconductor material.

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