ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,608, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic recording medium, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic recording and reproducing device" was invented by Wataru Kikuchi (Minamiashigara, Japan), Yutaka Nozoe (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Nobuhito Onozuka (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The magnetic recording medium includes a silicon-containing compound having a partial structure represented by Formula 1 (hereinafter, also simply referred to as a "silicon-containing compound") in a portion on a non-magnetic support on a magnetic layer side. In Formula 1, R11, R12, and R13 each independentl...