Inventor

Walter H Brattain

Patents indexed

Year range

1950

Associated with

Years active

1950

Total patents

Most recent

1950

Frequent collaborator

Bardeen John

Domains

semiconductorstelecommunicationsconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

1950s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1950

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The Invention of the Transistor

Bell Labs' 1950 patent for the point-contact transistor, the fundamental electronic component that makes all modern computing possible.

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