US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 2 for "Determining nonlinearity in written servo patterns" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,530, issued on June 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining nonlinearity in written servo patterns" was invented by Luzius Kronig (Zurich, Switzerland), Simeon Furrer (Altdorf, Switzerland), Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland), Kevin Bruce Judd (Vail, Ariz.) and Alexander Donald Fasen (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment includes positioning a magnetic tape head having at least three servo readers such that a first of the readers is located within a first servo band of a magnetic tape, a second of the readers trailing the first reader is located within the fir...