US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 20 for "Signal processing device, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, program, signal processing method, and magnetic tape manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,053, issued on May 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, program, signal processing method, and magnetic tape manufacturing method" 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 magnetic head includes a pair of servo reading elements corresponding to a pair of servo bands adjacent to each other in a width direction. A processor acquires a first signal based on a first result obtained by reading a servo pattern in a first servo band by a first ...