 The company was started based on the research done at the California Institute of Technology by Carver Mead and Chris Diorio.Impinj currently produces EPC Class 1, Gen 2 passive UHF RFID chips, RFID readers, RFID reader chips, and RFID antennas, and software applications for encoding chips, and gathering business intelligence on RFID systems.Impinj was founded in 2000 based on the research of Carver Mead and his student Chris Diorio.