Charles Alfred Dodgsons Walton is best known as the first patent holder for the RFID device. Many individuals contributed to the invention of the RFID, but Walton was awarded ten patents in all for various RFID-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 "RFID".
- Occupation
- inventor, engineer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- November 6, 2011
