ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,358, issued on July 29, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Tape heads having tiered servo readers" was invented by Robert G. Biskeborn (Hollister, Calif.), David J. Seagle (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Diane L. Brown (San Jose, Calif.) and Trevor W. Olson (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a tape drive comprising one or more tape head modules. Each tape head module comprises 65 data elements disposed in a first row, each data element being a write element or a read element, and at least 5 servo element pairs disposed in a second row, the second row...