US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 26 for "Magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape cartridge, and information management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,167, issued on May 26, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape cartridge, and information management 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 magnetic tape drive is used for a magnetic tape cartridge including a magnetic tape and a storage medium. Geometrical characteristic information is stored in the storage medium. The geometrical characteristic information is recorded on the magnetic tape. A processor of a magnetic tape drive erases first geometrical characteristic information from the...