US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Magnetic storage media having partitions without guard wraps" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,110, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Magnetic storage media having partitions without guard wraps" was invented by Tsuyoshi Miyamura (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Abe (Ebina, Japan), Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo), Shinsuke Mitsuma (Machida, Japan) and Hiroshi Itagaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one general embodiment, a method includes partitioning a magnetic recording tape having a plurality of data bands. The partitioning includes assigning no more than two wraps of a first of the data bands to an index partition, the two wraps being at an end of wraps of the ...