First patent for an integrated circuit filed

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6 February, 1959

The first patent for an integrated circuit was filed by Jack Kilby on 6th February 1959. The concept of the IC was first published by Englishman Geoffrey Dummer in 1952. A few years later, Kilby, who was working at Texas Instruments at that time had demonstrated the first integrated circuit.