US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 22 for "Servo pattern recording device, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, detection device, servo pattern recording method, and manufacturing method of magnetic tape" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,897, issued on July 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Servo pattern recording device, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, detection device, servo pattern recording method, and manufacturing method of magnetic tape" was invented by Toru Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuya Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoichi Akano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of gap patterns are formed on a front surface of a substrate along a direction corresponding to a width direction of a magnetic tape. The first straight line region has a steeper inclined angle with respect to th...