ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,297, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Enhanced dynamic braking algorithm for tape storage device" was invented by Alexander Donald Fasen (Tucson, Ariz.), Nhan Xuan Bui (Tucson, Ariz.), Randy Clark Inch (Tucson, Ariz.) and Scott Jeffrey Schaffer (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one embodiment, a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for enhanced dynamic braking of a tape storage device during a loss of power is provided. The present invention may include identifying a direction in which tape is moving; identifying a positi...