Carlo Infante

Carlo Infante (b. 1935 – d. May 12, 2005) [Note 1] was a Tektronix engineer.

He earned a PhD in physics from the University of Rome in 1959 and worked at the Frascati Electron Synchrotron facility in Italy.

In October 1961, he joined Tektronix in Beaverton, where he played key roles in the development of special-purpose CRTs and display design.

He left Tektronix in July of 1984 and later went to work at Xerox Corp., where he worked on one of the first personal word processors, and Digital Equipment Corp., among others, before setting up a consulting practice.

In 1996, Infante was named a Fellow of the Society for Information Display.

Products

• 7912
• T7912
• project manager on 7D11 ^{[Note 2]}

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Patents by Carlo Infante

Page	Office	Number	Title	Inventors	Company	Filing date	Grant date
Patent US 3422305A	US	3422305A	Geometry and focus correcting circuit	Carlo Infante	Tektronix Inc	1967-10-12	1969-01-14
Patent US 3839669A	US	3839669A	Dark current temperature compensation via dc restoration circuit	Carlo Infante • Don Roberts	Tektronix Inc	1973-07-27	1974-10-01
Patent US 3893036A	US	3893036A	Precision function generator	Jim Cavoretto • Al Allworth • Carlo Infante	Tektronix Inc	1973-07-27	1975-07-01
Patent US 4129807A	US	4129807A	Current regulating circuit for magnetic deflection systems	Carlo Infante	Xerox Corp	1976-10-15	1978-12-12
Patent US 5428270A	US	5428270A	Dynamic focus correction circuit	Carlo Infante	Digital Equipment Corp	1993-08-17	1995-06-27

Documents Authored by Carlo Infante

Document	Page	Class	Title	Author(s)	Year	Refers to
Tekscope 1973 V5 N6 Nov 1973.pdf	3	Article	A New Way to Look At Transients	Carlo Infante	1973	R7912
Tekscope 1973 V5 N6 Nov 1973.pdf	6	Article	A Close-up Look at the CRT	Carlo Infante	1973	T7912

Carlo Infante (3rd from left) with 4112 and 4114 in 1981

Notes

1. Obituary and https://www.eskimo.com/~gatesj/retired
2. TekScope Vol. 4 No. 6, Nov 1972