Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (12322424) developed by Biskeborn; Robert G., Hollister, CA, and Seagle; David J., Morgan Hill, CA, for “3-Band magnetic recording tape and tape drive“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure generally relates to a tape and a tape drive comprising a tape head and a controller. The tape drive comprises a tape comprising three data bands and four servo tracks, a servo track of the four servo tracks being disposed between adjacent data bands, one or more tape head modules, each tape head module comprising a plurality of data elements and two or more servo element pairs, and a controller configured to control each of the one or more tape head modules to write data to and read data from the tape. Each data band has a width of about one-third a total width of the tape, such as about 3800 μm to about 3900 μm. The three data bands and four servo tracks span the total width of the tape.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-10-31 (18/385756).