Education
Cornell University; Cornell University College of Engineering.
Cornell University; Cornell University College of Engineering.
Many individuals contributed to the invention of the Radio Frequency IDentification, but Walton was awarded ten patents in all for various Radio Frequency IDentification-related devices, including his key 1973 design for a "Portable radio frequency emitting identifier". This patent was awarded in 1983, and was the first to bear the acronym "Radio Frequency IDentification". Charles Walton grew up in Maryland and New York State, and graduated from George School in 1939.
He graduated from Cornell University in 1943 with a degree in Electrical engineering, and received a master"s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.
After service in the Army Signal Corps, Charles Walton worked at International Business Machines Corporation"s research and development laboratories until 1970. He founded the company Proximity Devices, Incorporated., in Sunnyvale, California in 1970, to manufacture devices based on his patents.
Walton died on November 6, 2011, at the age of 89.