About The Author

Mr. Nappi has worked at a number of major research facilities, including Oak Ridge National Lab, Sandia National Lab, Lawrence Livermore Lab, and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. He researched and prepared the first compendium of nuclear radiation testing on weapon components for the Atomic Energy Commission (now Department of Energy).

He is a listed inventor on 6 issued U.S. patents and has assisted numerous companies and individuals in preparing, applying for, and protecting patents. Most recently, he prepared the abstract, claims, discussion and drawings for a major 137-claim patent (pending). He was the editor and primary author for 3 1800+ page reports on military system programs for the U.S. Army and has provided the research and data organization for more than 100 proposals submitted to the U.S. government for funding.

Mr. Nappi’s extensive consulting engineering work and his combined electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and embedded systems backgrounds have given him many hundreds of opportunities to apply mechanical, electronic and materials solutions encompassing RFID and numerous other technologies.

During the late 80’s and 90’s, Mr. Nappi was chief engineer and program manager on a number of military system contracts that included passive sensors, RF powered sensors, radio pills, flexible circuits, low power processors and RF systems.

In the 80’s, his work encompassed circuit hardware, embedded systems, and robotics, machine tools, medical instruments, and sensors. Mr. Nappi has also performed in-depth work with nondestructive testing using X-ray systems, eddy current, electrostatics, acoustic, mechanical and optical testing methods.

In the 70’s, Mr. Nappi’s focus was on advanced nuclear systems. His work involved systems analysis, materials development and very high reliability mechanical design. He did pioneering work in reliability and quality methods. His mechanical design work included mechanisms, optics, lasers, explosives, fluidics, hydraulics, and nuclear and thermal systems.

Across his career, as principal Investigator for three $500K Phase 2 and ten $50K Phase 1 US Government Small Business Innovative Research programs, Mr. Nappi was the inventor of the first fully automated system to fabricate dental crowns (which was licensed in Germany); the first hands-free graphic computer interface; the fastest DNA sequencing machine in the world (1990); the first 512-sensor solid state array for measuring muscle contractions in real time and the first infrared fiber optic probe for direct measurement of human blood chemistry in-situ.

		The author of RFID 2004 is Mr. Bruce Nappi B.S. M.S. Mr. Nappi has 30+ years of engineering experience developing leading edge high tech products. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from MIT in 1969. He completed both BS and MS degrees at MIT in 4 years, graduating in the top 25% of the class. He has been awarded the Luis de Florez Award, the Wunsch Foundation Award, the Harvard Book Prize, the Rensselaer Science Award, the Bausch and Lomb Science Award, and the Hartford Professional Engineer's Club Award.

	Mr. Nappi has worked at a number of major research facilities, including Oak Ridge National Lab, Sandia National Lab, Lawrence Livermore Lab, and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. He researched and prepared the first compendium of nuclear radiation testing on weapon components for the Atomic Energy Commission (now Department of Energy). He is a listed inventor on 6 issued U.S. patents and has assisted numerous companies and individuals in preparing, applying for, and protecting patents. Most recently, he prepared the abstract, claims, discussion and drawings for a major 137-claim patent (pending). He was the editor and primary author for 3 1800+ page reports on military system programs for the U.S. Army and has provided the research and data organization for more than 100 proposals submitted to the U.S. government for funding. Mr. Nappi’s extensive consulting engineering work and his combined electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and embedded systems backgrounds have given him many hundreds of opportunities to apply mechanical, electronic and materials solutions encompassing RFID and numerous other technologies. During the late 80’s and 90’s, Mr. Nappi was chief engineer and program manager on a number of military system contracts that included passive sensors, RF powered sensors, radio pills, flexible circuits, low power processors and RF systems. In the 80’s, his work encompassed circuit hardware, embedded systems, and robotics, machine tools, medical instruments, and sensors. Mr. Nappi has also performed in-depth work with nondestructive testing using X-ray systems, eddy current, electrostatics, acoustic, mechanical and optical testing methods. In the 70’s, Mr. Nappi’s focus was on advanced nuclear systems. His work involved systems analysis, materials development and very high reliability mechanical design. He did pioneering work in reliability and quality methods. His mechanical design work included mechanisms, optics, lasers, explosives, fluidics, hydraulics, and nuclear and thermal systems. Across his career, as principal Investigator for three $500K Phase 2 and ten $50K Phase 1 US Government Small Business Innovative Research programs, Mr. Nappi was the inventor of the first fully automated system to fabricate dental crowns (which was licensed in Germany); the first hands-free graphic computer interface; the fastest DNA sequencing machine in the world (1990); the first 512-sensor solid state array for measuring muscle contractions in real time and the first infrared fiber optic probe for direct measurement of human blood chemistry in-situ.