ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,901, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Segmented tape head" was invented by Hugo E. Rothuizen (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland), Simeon Furrer (Altdorf, Switzerland), Beat Eugen Weiss (Edlibach, Switzerland) and Luzius Kronig (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, device, system, and method for compensating for a nonlinear deformation field of a tape of a tape storage system. In one embodiment, a head beam of a tape head module of a tape drive employing active skew-based TDS compensation, is...