ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,057, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Read offset calibration for magnetic tape recording" was invented by David Lee Swanson (Tucson, Ariz.) and Ernest Stewart Gale (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one general embodiment, a method includes positioning a read transducer of a magnetic head at an initial position over a data track on a magnetic recording tape using servo information derived from servo reader signals. A reading characteristic is measured during reading of the data track. The position of the magnetic head relative to the data track is sequentially ...