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Of the seven patents Noyce filed in his first 18 months at Fairchild, the best known is #2,981,877 for “Semiconductor Device-and-Lead Structure.” Fairchild called the product developed on the basis of this patent, which Noyce filed in 1959, a “monolithic integrated circuit.”
After the simultaneous invention of the integrated circuit, TI and Kilby were the first to patent their device, but Fairchild and Noyce's was easier to mass-produce.
Awards and honors. In July 1959, he filed for U.S. patent 2,981,877 "Semiconductor Device and Lead Structure", a type of integrated circuit. This independent effort was recorded only a few months after the key findings of inventor Jack Kilby.
The inventor of the first practical integrated circuit, in 1959, was Robert Noyce. It was one of 17 patents awarded to him. In 1968, Noyce and his Fairchild co-founder Gordon Moore launched their own new venture, a tiny memory company they called Intel.
At the end of the interview, Noyce briefly mentions the patent disputes involving Jack Kilby and states the contributions Kilby and he himself made to the development of the IC.
On January 14, 1959, Jean Hoerni introduced his latest version of the planar process to Robert Noyce and a patent attorney John Rallza at Fairchild Semiconductor.
Robert Noyce builds on Jean Hoerni's planar process to patent a monolithic integrated circuit structure that can be manufactured in high volume.
