Albert Medwin

Albert H Medwin (born October 27, 1925) is an American electrical engineer. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He married Marilyn Herbst Medwin on August 30 1947. He is the father of Larry and Steve Medwin and grandfather of Dan, Allison, Rachel and Sam Medwin. He is a graduate of City College of New York. He holds several US patents, including ones in the field of electronic encoders. Albert was involved in the early development of integrated circuits while working at RCA in Somerville, New Jersey. In the 1960's he led the engineering group that developed the world's first low power CMOS chips.

Military Service

Medwin enlisted in the Army in World War II (1943) and served in the European Theater of Operation (ETO) in a Combat Engineer Battalion in the First Army. He attained the rank of Technical Sergeant (T-4) and was discharged in 1946.

Technical Background

Medwin's first patent (US 3,390,314) issued in 1968 when he was 43. It is entitled "Semiconductor Translating Circuit" and was assigned to Radio Corporation of America (RCA). His second patent (US 3,588,635) issued in 1971 and is simply titled "Integrated Circuit." It was also assigned to the RCA Corporation. At this point, Medwin left RCA to start his own integrated circuit development company called Ragen Semiconductor. He received his next patent (US 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.

Several years later, Medwin started another company call CGS Systems, Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey. His next patent (US 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" (US 4,367,438) issued in 1983 and "Electronic Vernier" (US 4,459,702) issued in 1984. Neither of these was assigned to a company.

Retirement Activities

*Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)- volunteer reader since 1985.
*55Plus - organization of retired men in Princeton, NJ
*Community without Walls (CWW) - a support organization of senior citizens in Princeton (member since 1999)
*Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) - delivers food to the needy in Trenton, NJ since 1990