US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Tape drive error recovery procedure selection based on humidity" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,414, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Tape drive error recovery procedure selection based on humidity" was invented by Tsuyoshi Miyamura (Yokohama, Japan), Setsuko Masuda (Toshima-ku, Japan) and Tatsuki Sawada (Matsudo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a magnetic head, and a controller coupled to the magnetic head, the controller being configured to perform a method that includes measuring humidity in a vicinity of the apparatus in response to detection of an error while performing a data operation on a magnetic recording tape. A...