# Jack S Kilby — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Jack S Kilby has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Jack Kilby Invented the First Integrated Circuit](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/3138743/kilby-monolithic-integrated-circuit) — granted 1964
  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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