Charles Walton (1921 to 2011) was an electrical engineer, born in England and later a United States citizen, who is best known as the first holder of a patent for radio frequency identification, or RFID. Many people contributed to the technology, but Walton was granted ten patents on related devices, including a 1973 design for a portable radio frequency emitting identifier, awarded in 1983, which was the first patent to carry the acronym RFID. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University and then Stevens Institute of Technology, served in the United States Army Signal Corps, and worked at IBM research laboratories until 1970. That year he founded Proximity Devices in Sunnyvale, California, to make products based on his patents.
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Charles Alfred Dodgsons Walton (December 11, 1921
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Walton died on November 6, 2011, at the age of 89.
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He graduated from Cornell University in 1943 with a degree in electrical engineering
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is best known as the first patent holder for the RFID (radio frequency identification) device
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