US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on April 8 for "Magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, and method of operating magnetic tape drive" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,390, issued on April 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, and method of operating magnetic tape drive" was invented by Toru Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan), Norihito Kasada (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuya Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Musha (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic tape cartridge includes a case in which a magnetic tape is accommodated and a storage medium provided in the case. At least one of reading or writing of data is performed by a plurality of magnetic elements, which are linearly disposed, with respect to the magnetic tape p...