US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 25 for "Noncontact communication device, magnetic tape drive, noncontact communication system, method for operating noncontact communication device, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,496, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Noncontact communication device, magnetic tape drive, noncontact communication system, method for operating noncontact communication device, and program" was invented by Eiichiro Kataoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noncontact communication device includes an antenna, and a processor configured to couple a noncontact storage medium mounted in a magnetic tape cartridge and the antenna by electromagnetic induction to perform communication with the noncontact storage medium. The processor is configured to perform communication in each of a plurality of...