PennDesign Lecturer J.D. Albert has been named a 2016 inductee for the National Inventors' Hall of Fame (NIHF). Working in the lab of MIT professor Joe Jacobson, Albert helped develop the concept of a book with content that could be changed and renewed at the push of a button—what ultimately became electronic ink used in e-readers like the Kindle and Nook.
Albert teaches in the Department of Architecture and the Integrated Product Design (IPD) program at Penn, and is director of engineering at Bresslergroup. As described on the Bresslergroup's website, "he gets a kick out of conquering constraints and finding ways to make things no one else can."
Each year, the NIHF welcomes a new class of the world’s foremost inventors. Recent inductees include Paul MacCready, the aeronautical engineer known as the “Father of Human Powered Flight,” and Marion Donovan, the inventor of the waterproof diaper cover. Albert will be formally inducted into the NIHF on May 5, 2016 in a ceremony held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
The Hall of Fame was founded in 1973 by the National Council of Patent Law Associations, now the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Read Albert's profile on Invent.org, the NIHF website.
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