Inventor

Tassel J Van

Patents indexed

Year range

1974

Associated with

Years active

1974

Total patents

Most recent

1974

Frequent collaborator

J Kilby

Domains

consumer_electronicssemiconductorsmechanical

Activity by decade

1970s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1974

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How Texas Instruments Invented the Handheld Electronic Calculator

This 1972 patent describes the architecture for the first truly portable, battery-powered electronic calculator that could fit in a pocket.

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