Mario Cardullo is an American inventor who received the first patent for a passive, read-write Radio-frequency identification.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} He is a 1957 graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now known as the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]} He earned his doctorate degree from the George Mason University.