ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,602, issued on March 24, was assigned to Insurgo Holdings Ltd. (Abertillery, Great Britain).
"Erasing of data from tapes" was invented by Roy Spiller (Treorchy, Great Britain) and Gavin Griffiths (Llwydcoed, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system for the erasure of data from a tape cartridge having a data tape and a CM chip, the device comprising: a controller in communication with: a magnetic head; a tape driver; and an antenna, wherein, when a data cartridge is detected by the controller, the controller is operable to signal to the antenna to determine the CM chip identification data; ...