ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,596, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ChannelScience LLC (Plano, Texas).
"High-fidelity, low-contact data retrieval from legacy tapes" was invented by Charles Sobey (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for retrieving information from legacy storage media with high fidelity and minimal contact. A read sensor with multiple read elements detects electromagnetic fields from tracks on a storage medium. Readings from different elements are combined to generate a composite interpretation, which can be used to, for example, generate digitized waveforms and determine if portions of tracks are damage...