Globalfoundries Assigned Patent
Operating tape storage device
By Francis Pelletier | February 9, 2016 at 2:57 pmGlobalfoundries, Inc., Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, with International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, (Patent Applicant), has been assigned a patent (9,218,839) developed by Cherubini, Giovanni, Jelitto, Jens, and Pantazi, Angeliki, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, for a “operating a tape storage device.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An apparatus for operating a tape storage device comprises a first tape skew determination unit for providing a first tape skew value concerning a skew of a tape in the tape storage device, and a second tape skew determination unit for providing a second tape skew value concerning the skew of the tape. An actuator adjusts one or more of a rotational orientation of a tape head of the tape storage device which tape head is provided for reading and/or writing data from/to the tape, and a motion direction of the tape dependent on the first tape skew value and the second tape skew value.“
The patent application was filed on April 24, 2013 (14/387,572).