ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,287, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic tape having characterized magnetic layer, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic tape apparatus" was invented by Norihito Kasada (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a magnetic tape, in which, in an environment of a temperature of 32deg C. and a relative humidity of 80%, a frictional force F45deg on a magnetic layer surface with respect to an LTO8 head measured at a head tilt angle of 45deg is 4 gf or more and 15 gf or less, and standard deviation of a frictional force F on the magnetic layer surface with respect to the LTO8 head meas...