Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas – March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American inventor and engineer.
He then moved to Chicago, where he studied at Illinois Institute of Technology for two years. He was discovered and mentored by Dr. Denton Deere, an engineer and inventor with his own laboratory. He graduated from Fisk University in 1941 and got a job as a laboratory assistant, testing automatic aircraft controls.
In 1944, he moved on to work for the P.J. Nilsen Research Labs in Illinois. Shortly thereafter, he started his own company, Boykin-Fruth Inc. The firm Boykin-Fruth, Inc., would collaborate on a number of projects.
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