France Rode was born on November 20, 1934, in Nožice, Slovenia and died on June 7, 2017.

He was a Slovenian engineer and inventor.

He was best known for his work on the HP-35 pocket calculator.

Rode was one of the four lead engineers at Hewlett-Packard assigned to this project.

He was also invented and created the first workable RFID products: workplace entry cards, for which he holds several patents.

France Rode passed away at 82 years old.