US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 12 for "Tape head module having a congruent extension and method for mass producing same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,720, issued on May 12, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tape head module having a congruent extension and method for mass producing same" was invented by Robert G. Biskeborn (Hollister, Calif.) and Eduardo Torres Mireles (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a tape drive comprising one or more tape head modules and a method of forming thereof. A first element array and a second element array are disposed on a first chip of a rowbar, and a third element array and a fourth element array are disposed on a second chip of the rowbar. The second ele...