ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,926, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic head, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, and magnetic tape system" was invented by Toru Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoichi Akano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hodaka Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The magnetic head comprises a recording module in which a plurality of recording elements are provided, and a reproducing module in which a plurality of reproducing elements are provided. The recording module and the reproducing module are disposed along a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape. A pair of first servo reading...