US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 14 for "Tape head assembly with piezoelectric actuator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,925, issued on July 14, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tape head assembly with piezoelectric actuator" was invented by Kenji Kuroki (Fujisawa, Japan), Koumei Hanaoka (Odawara, Japan) and Hiroshi Tano (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a tape drive comprising a tape head assembly. The tape head assembly comprises a head block having a first end and a second end, the second end being opposite the first end, one or more tape head modules disposed on the head block, the one or more tape head modules each comprising a plurality of data element...