US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Magnetic tape head usable in two or more modes of operation" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,605, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Magnetic tape head usable in two or more modes of operation" was invented by Icko E. T. Iben (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David Lee Swanson (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured for 32- and 64-channel operation, in accordance with one embodiment, includes a first group of evenly-spaced elements, the first group having a 32 elements including at least a first element, a last element, and a second-to-last element of the first group. A second group of evenly-spaced elements is positioned adjacent the first group ...