US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Spring suspension with independent reader and writer following actuator" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,836, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Spring suspension with independent reader and writer following actuator" was invented by Evan Wheelwright (Tucson, Ariz.), David Harper (Vail, Ariz.), Chase Alan Steeves (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kevin Bruce Judd (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a top section, a middle section, and a bottom section of a spring actuator for a tape drive that form a C-shape of the spring actuator. The middle section includes three flexor columns, where a first writer module is bonded to a first flexor column from the three flexor colu...