US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 8 for "Magnetic recording tape medium with conductive particle configuration and cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,609, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic recording tape medium with conductive particle configuration and cartridge" was invented by Minoru Yamaga (Tokyo) and Yuuko Kamoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium and includes: a base; and a magnetic layer. The magnetic layer contains a conductive particle. An average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.3 micro metre or less. An average number of conductive particles per 400 micro metre2 of a surface of the magnetic layer is 50 or more, an average conductive particle a...