US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 1 for "Reworkable tape track following actuator" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,387, issued on April 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reworkable tape track following actuator" was invented by Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland), Walter Haeberle (Waedenswil, Switzerland), Simeon Furrer (Altdorf, Switzerland) and David Harper (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for a reworkable tape track following actuator includes a spring actuator, a head module, a voice coil, and a mounting body, where the spring actuator is coupled to the mounting body and the mounting body is removable from a tape drive assembly. The apparatus further includes the head modul...