US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Simultaneously writing data to two sets of channels in a tape media to increase channel transfer rate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,922, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Simultaneously writing data to two sets of channels in a tape media to increase channel transfer rate" was invented by Atsushi Abe (Ebina, Japan), Tsuyoshi Miyamura (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroshi Itagaki (Yokohama, Japan), Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Shinsuke Mitsuma (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a tape head controller, tape drive, and method for simultaneously writing data to two sets of channels to increase channel transfer rate. A tape head module having a first and second sets of read/write elements is positione...