ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,086, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to L2 DRIVE INC. (Yorba Linda, Calif.).
"Active spacing control for contactless tape recording" was invented by Karim Kaddeche (Irvine, Calif.), John Wang (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Peter Goglia (Alamo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of controlling tape drive magnetic head spacing and the use of hard disk drive heads in a tape drive. The present invention is related to magnetic tape data storage and tape recorders that include components designed to minimize or eliminate head-to-tape contact to reduce or eliminate wear and contamination of the tape ...