ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,609, issued on June 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Servo pattern recording head, servo pattern recording device, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, and manufacturing method of magnetic tape" was invented by Tetsuya Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toru Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A servo pattern recording head includes: a plurality of head cores that are magnetically separated from each other; and a plurality of gap patterns that are formed on a front surface of each of the plurality of head cores and that are used for recording a plurality of servo pat...