ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,827, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Servo pattern recording apparatus, method of producing a servo pattern recording method, and magnetic tape" was invented by Hiroshi Morita (Tokyo) and Koji Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A servo pattern recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology is an apparatus that records a plurality of servo patterns adjacent to each other in a tape width direction on a magnetic layer of a magnetic tape, including: a servo write head; and a temperature adjustment unit. The servo write head includes a plurality of recording units arranged ...