Paul Moskowitz
Paul A. Moskowitz works at the
Moskowitz is an expert on the physics of
The Clipped Tag for consumer privacy
The privacy-protecting RFID tag, the "
Patents
Among Moskowitz's 140 issued US patents is United States Patent 5,528,222, "Radio frequency circuit and memory in thin flexible package". This invention forms the basis for the design of today's RFID tags for the retail supply chain. These tags are manufactured today in the hundreds of millions. The United States patent states "The elements of the package (substrate, antenna, and laminated covers) are flexible. The elements of the package are all thin. The tag is thin and flexible, enabling a unique range of applications including: RFID tagging of credit cards, passports, admission tickets, and postage stamps." This patent has been cited as a reference by over one thousand US patents. It has been the subject of litigation between some of the major players in the RFID field, e.g. between Intermec and Symbol Technologies and between Intermec and Alien Technology.
Another Moskowitz patent is United States Patent 6,163,250, titled "System and method for sensing objects on surface of vehicle."
According to the patent, "Typically, vehicle drivers and/or passengers place objects on, for example, the roof or hood of their vehicle. Often, the driver and/or passengers forget that they have placed the objects there, and proceed to enter the car and drive away. The objects are usually grocery or food items, or beverages such as coffee or soft drinks, etc., but may include other items. Indeed, in one reported case, a baby was placed on the top of a vehicle and the vehicle driver drove away without knowing the baby was on the roof of the vehicle. The results of this sequence of events range from the comic to the tragic."
As reported by the New York Times in 2001, the patent provides a system such that "objects adjacent or on the surface of a vehicle (e.g., on the vehicle hood, roof or trunk) can be reliably sensed and preventive measures may be taken by the driver and/or passenger."
In 2011, Google purchased the "coffee cup on the car" patent along with over one thousand other patents. According to the Wall Street Journal, "The Google spokesman declined to comment on the purchase price."[1]
The Moskowitz-Lombardi rule
While working at the University of Grenoble in France, Paul Moskowitz and French Physicist Maurice Lombardi published an empirical relation that has come to be called the Moskowitz-Lombardi rule or ML rule. The rule helps give nuclear physicists insight into the complex structure of the
A charged atomic nucleus with non-zero spin produces a magnetic field whose strength may be expressed by the size of its
An investigation by T. Fujita and A. Arima (Nucl. Phys. 1975) found the M-L rule to yield results closer to the measured values than did calculations based upon nuclear theory. The rule has been applied to isotopes of elements including mercury, iridium, gold, thallium, platinum, tungsten, osmium, and barium. T. Asaga, et al. have proposed measuring the systematics of the nuclear properties of a series of europium isotopes to test the universality of the rule (Z. Phys. 1997). Researchers at Mainz, S. Trapp et al. (Hyperfine Interactions, 2000) have indicated that they plan to pursue experimental europium measurements. Author
Wheel of Fortune
According to Moskowitz's IBM web site he won $50,000 when he appeared on the popular TV game show,
References
- ^ Efrati, Amir (2011-07-29). "Google Buys IBM Patents - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
External links
- United States Patent 7,277,016, System and method for disabling RFID tags. USPTO
- United States Patent 7,253,734, System and method for altering or disabling RFID tags. USPTO
- A Privacy-Enhancing Radio Frequency Identification Tag: Implementation of the Clipped Tag, Paul Moskowitz, Stephen Morris, Andris Lauris, Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerComW'07), pp. 348-351
- A Privacy-Enhancing Radio Frequency Identification Tag: Implementation of the Clipped Tag, Paul Moskowitz, Stephen Morris, Andris Lauris. IEEE PerTec 2007, March 20, 2007 (presentation)
- 25 Top Influencers in the RFID Industry, RFid Gazette, February 20, 2007
- IBM signs first license for Clipped Tag technology, CNNMoney.com, February 13, 2007.[permanent dead link]
- Can RFID Invade Your Privacy?, Forbes, December 7, 2006
- IBM Allays RFID Concerns, Red Herring, November 9, 2006
- Pro-Privacy Tearable RFID Tag Becomes a Reality, RFID Update, November 8, 2006, with Clipped Tag video demonstration
- IBM Research's clipped tags among top technology innovations of 2006, September 11, 2006
- Intermec sues Alien over IP, RFID Journal, June 29, 2006
- Clipped Tag White Paper on IBM web site, May 1, 2006
- Retail-Safe RFID Unveiled, Wired News, May 1, 2006
- IBM Proposes Privacy-Protecting Tag, RFID Journal, November 7, 2005
- Guenter Karjoth and Paul Moskowitz, Disabling RFID Tags with Visible Confirmation, WPES '05, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, pp. 27-30, ACM Press, 2005.[permanent dead link]
- Data protection and data sharing in telematics, Mobile Networks and Applications, December 2004
- Soon, the Car Will Know Traffic Is Snarled Ahead, The New York Times, AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology, July 12, 2004
- United States patent 6,163,250, System and method for sensing objects on surface of vehicle, USPTO
- Some of I.B.M.'s 2,886 patents last year turned it away from circuit boards and semiconductors, The New York Times, January 22, 2001, Section C; Page 6, Column 4, Business/Financial Desk
- United States Patent 5,528,222, Radio frequency circuit and memory in thin flexible package, USPTO
- S. Trapp et al., Hyperfine structure and g-factor measurements on Ba+ and Eu+, Hyperfine Interactions (2000), p. 57-64.[permanent dead link]
- T. Asaga, T. Fujita, and K. Ito, Hyperfine Structure Constants for Eu Isotopes: Is The Empirical Formula of HFS Anomaly Universal?, Z.Phys. A359 (1997) 237-242 Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Takehisa Fujita and Akito Arima, Magnetic hyperfine structure of muonic and electronic atoms, Nuclear Physics A, (1975) p. 513-541.
- P. A. Moskowitz and M. Lombardi, Distribution of Nuclear Magnetization in Mercury Isotopes, Physics Letters B (1973), p. 334-336.
- IBM web site of Paul Moskowitz
- ISBN 978-0-19-533611-5
- Google Buys IBM Patents, The Wall Street Journal, Technology, July 29, 2011