US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 4 for "Adjusting a skew angle and lateral position of a tape head to reduce track placement errors" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,778, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adjusting a skew angle and lateral position of a tape head to reduce track placement errors" was invented by Simeon Furrer (Altdorf, Switzerland), Luzius Kronig (Zurich, Switzerland) and Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a tape head controller, tape drive, and method for adjusting a skew angle and lateral position of a tape head to reduce track placement errors. A tape head is rotated at a nominal skew with respect to a tape medium to position servo readers in servo patterns. Data writers are...