US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 23 for "Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,795, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives" was invented by Ernest S. Gale (Tucson, Ariz.), Brian G. Goodman (Tucson, Ariz.), Icko E. T. Iben (Santa Clara, Calif.), Leonard G. Jesionowski (Tucson, Ariz.), James M. Karp (Tucson, Ariz.), Michael P. McIntosh (Tucson, Ariz.), Shawn M. Nave (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lee C. Randall (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage library system includes a data storage library, at least one environmental conditioning unit, at least one data storage drive retain...