ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,156, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TAPE ARK (East Perth, Australia).
"Tape reader" was invented by Guy Holmes (East Perth, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape reader is provided that reads data from a tape without requiring specific alignment. The tape reader may include a reader head comprising a sensor array with a plurality of sensors that detect the data independent of the track within which the data is stored. Multiple sensors may detect data in each track instead of a single, dedicated sensor for each track. The sensor array may comprise multiple sensors in multiple dimensions, such as perpendicular to the moveme...