ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,721, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, servo pattern recording device, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, detection device, inspection device, servo pattern recording method, manufacturing method of magnetic tape, detection method, and inspection method" was invented by Toru Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan), Hodaka Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoichi Akano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first servo pattern has a first position and a second position which intersect an imaginary line. A second servo pattern has a third position intersecting the imaginary ...