US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 8 for "Read order determination on a tape" (Japanese, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,626, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Read order determination on a tape" was invented by Atsushi Abe (Ebina, Japan), Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo), Shinsuke Mitsuma (Machida, Japan), Hiroshi Itagaki (Yokohama, Japan), Noriko Yamamoto (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Miyamura (Yokohama, Japan) and Lucas Correia Villa Real (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving a list of areas on a subject tape to be read, wherein each area of the list of areas is indicated by a first record number and a last record number corresponding to the area, identifying para...