US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 19 for "Providing a stiffener in a tape reel hub to reduce tape dimensional stability errors" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,311, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing a stiffener in a tape reel hub to reduce tape dimensional stability errors" was invented by Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland), Hugo E. Rothuizen (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Simeon Furrer (Altdorf, Switzerland), Beat Eugen Weiss (Edlibach, Switzerland), Stella Brach (Oberrieden, Switzerland) and Luzius Kronig (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape cartridge reel comprises an upper flange, a lower flange, and a hollow cylinder hub between the upper flange and the lower flange. The upper flange has an upper o...