ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,284, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Single data band data storage" was invented by Icko E. T. Iben (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David Lee Swanson (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, device, system, and method for single data band data storage. In one embodiment, a tape head module has an array of four servo transducer elements for each servo band of a tape and an array of reader/writer transducer elements extending over most of the width of the tape. In another embodiment, a data storage tape has a top servo band positioned adjac...