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Albert Medwin
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He holds several United States patents, including ones in the field of electronic encoders. Medwin was involved in the early development of integrated circuits while working at Radio Corporation of America in Somerville, New Jersey. In the 1960s he led the engineering group that developed the world"s first low power Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor chips including a high speed shift register.
He is also credited with leading the Radio Corporation of America group that introduced the 4000 series Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor integrated circuit to the market.
Medwin"s first patent (United States 3,390,314) issued in 1968 when he was 43. lieutenant is entitled "Semiconductor Translating Circuit" and was assigned to Radio Corporation of America (Radio Corporation of America).
His second patent (United States 3,588,635) issued in 1971 and is simply titled "Integrated Circuit." lieutenant was also assigned to the Radio Corporation of America Corporation. At this point, Medwin left Radio Corporation of America to start his own integrated circuit development company called Ragen Semiconductor.
He received his next patent (United States 3,789,388) in 1972, titled "Apparatus for Providing a Pulsed Liquid Crystal Display." This was the first of his patents that was assigned to Ragen Semiconductor.
A number of companies were competing in the early 1970s to develop and commercialize a pocket sized calculator. Medwin"s activities in this space were chronicled in Business Week, Electronics and other periodicals. Several years later, Medwin started another company call CGS Systems, Incorporated. in Princeton, New Jersey.
His next patent (United States 4,110,701) was issued in 1978 and is titled "Method and Apparatus for Near-Synchronization of a Pair of Oscillators, and Measuring Thereby." His final two patents are related to electronic encoders.
"Electronic Measuring Apparatus" (United States 4,367,438) issued in 1983 and "Electronic Vernier" (United States 4,459,702) issued in 1984. Neither of these was assigned to a company.
