US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Jan. 27 for "Magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic tape apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,023, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic tape apparatus" was invented by Yujin Shibata (Minamiashigara, Japan) and So Matsuyama (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which a half-width of a frictional force, which is measured on a surface of the magnetic layer with a lateral force microscope, is 200 mV or less, and standard deviation Sigma of the half-width of the frictional force in a width direction of the surface of the magnetic la...