ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,288, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic tape in which a C-H derived C concentration calculated from a C-H peak surface area ratio in C1s spectra obtained by XPS performed on a surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is 45 atom % to 65 atom %, and in an environment with a temperature of 23deg C. and a relative humidity of 50%, an AlFeSil abrasion value45deg of the surfac...