ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,983, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Digital tape storage optimization" was invented by Xizhuo Zhang (Beijing), Jing Ren (Beijing), Zhao Yu Wang (Beijing), Yi Jie Ma (Beijing) and Jing Wen Chen (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding interrupting a write operation to enable a read operation to be performed on a digital tape system. An initial write operation to the tape can be paused, a read operation performed on a previously written data file conducted, and upon completion of the read operation, the write operation can be r...