US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Feb. 24 for "Servo reproduction apparatus, servo reproduction head, reproduction head, and method of producing a magnetic tape" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,188, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Servo reproduction apparatus, servo reproduction head, reproduction head, and method of producing a magnetic tape" was invented by Noboru Sekiguchi (Tokyo) and Minoru Yamaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A servo reproduction apparatus according to the present technology includes: a servo reproduction head. The servo reproduction head includes a first reproduction head portion and a second reproduction head portion. The first reproduction head portion reads a servo pattern recorded on a plurality of first servo bands, which are some of a plurality of servo band...