ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,046, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Tape drive repositioning" was invented by Tsuyoshi Miyamura (Yokohama, Japan) and Setsuko Masuda (Toshima-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to improved tape repositioning. Information associated with at least one preceding dataset on a tape medium is stored within a dataset information table (DSIT) of a dataset on the tape medium. A repositioning request specifying a target data position is received. The information associated with the at least one preceding dataset within the DSIT of the da...