US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Folded spring tape track following actuator" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,599, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Folded spring tape track following actuator" was invented by Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland), Walter Haeberle (Waedenswil, Switzerland), Simeon Furrer (Altdorf, Switzerland) and David Harper (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for a spring actuator positioned in a folded spring actuator assembly includes a top section, a middle section, and a bottom section of the spring actuator that form a C-shape for the spring actuator. The middle section includes two parallelized spring legs, where a cable head module is ...