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RFID has been around since the early 1920s. Mario Cardullo's U.S. Patent 3,713,148 in 1973 for a passive radio transponder with memory was the first true ancestor of modern RFID.

The first patent to be associated with the abbreviation RFID was granted to Charles Walton in 1983 (U.S. Patent 4,384,288). Since 1973 there have been 3,952 patents that used the term RFID. The RFID market has grown rapidly and reached $5 billion in sales in 2007 according to U.K based RFID analysis firm IDTechEx. The RFID market is predicted to hit $7 billion in 2008 and $25B by 2012.

Patent Searches can also be made through the US Patent Office.

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