George Jay Lichtblau

George Jay Lichtblau is founder and president of RocketLine LLC, a company which designs, manufactures and sells a new line-painting system for highways.

He founded and served as Chairman and CEO of International Fiber Systems (IFS) and was an independent inventor from 1982 to April 2004. IFS designs, manufactures and sells fiber optic transmission equipment for use with large closed circuit television systems and other large security systems. The company was sold to General Electric in April 2003. 

From 1972 to 1982 Lichtblau was Vice President for Research and Development for Checkpoint Systems, Inc. He was the original inventor of the Checkpoint Radio Frequency System to prevent shoplifting.

Lichtblau has received eighteen U.S. patents and numerous world-wide patents on radio frequency systems used to prevent shoplifting.  He has recently received a patent for an improved hearing aid and has a patent pending for a radically improved process for painting lines on highways.

Lichtblau holds a Master of Business Administration from HarvardBusinessSchool as well as a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude), both from PrincetonUniversity.