US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 11 for "Methods for improving track density in dual-reel removable tape devices and fixed tape devices" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,350, issued on March 11, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for improving track density in dual-reel removable tape devices and fixed tape devices" was invented by Keiichi Okada (Yokohama, Japan), Takehiko Hamaguchi (Fujisawa, Japan) and Akira Sakagami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a tape drive comprising a tape wound around first and second tape reels and a tape head module configured to write data to and read data from the tape. The tape drive is configured to equalize the amount of time the tape spends stored in a first state...