ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,257, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection device, inspection device, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, detection method, inspection method, and program" was invented by Tetsuya Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan), Toru Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoichi Akano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes a processing device and a storage medium. The processing device stores a result of reading a reference servo pattern by a servo reading element in the storage medium as an ideal waveform signal, acquires a servo band signal which is a...