ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,691, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic head, servo pattern recording apparatus, tape drive device, method of producing a magnetic tape, and recording method" was invented by Hiroshi Morita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic head according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a recording surface that has a first region corresponding to a position where a magnetic gap is provided in a length direction, and a second region corresponding to a position where the magnetic gap is not provided in the length direction, a plurality of groove portions crossing from one end in a ...