Jerome "Jerry" Swartz (born 1940) is a physicist that developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies in the United States and co-founded the corporation, Symbol Technologies on Long Island, New York, with physicist partner, Dr. Shelley A. Harrison in 1973.
[1] In 2006 Symbol Technologies became a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational telecommunications manufacturer, Motorola Corporation.
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/jerome-c-swartz In July 2003, Swartz resigned from his position as chairman and chief scientist of Symbol Technologies, at which time the company was under investigation for civil and criminal accounting fraud.
[3] Symbol agreed to settle the case with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June 2004, paying a $37 million penalty.
[5] In 2000, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for bar code technologies, including laser scanners and wireless data capture.