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Frank Wanlass invented CMOS logic circuits in 1963 while working at Fairchild Semiconductor. He was given patent #3,356,858 for "Low Stand-By Power Complementary Field Effect Circuitry."

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	Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor originated and published the idea of complementary-MOS (CMOS).
	Initially Wanlass tried to make a monolithic solution, but eventually he was forced to prove the concept with discrete devices.
	Enhancement mode NMOS transistors were not yet available and so Wanlass was used a depletion mode device biased to the off-state.

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