Unitex Assigned Patent

Unitex Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,431,255) developed by Sato, Hiromitsu, Tsuchida, Takahiro, and Kosugi, Emi, Tokyo, Japan, for a “magnetic-tape storage apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A magnetic-tape storage apparatus having a simple structure and being able to surely store magnetic tapes on each of which valuable data are recorded and the recorded data on them at a low cost and over a long period in a small space, a magnetic-tape storage apparatus comprises a housing, a cartridge storage part, a magnetic tape drive, a cartridge transfer device [18] to selectively transfer a plurality of cartridges stored in the cartridge storage part to the magnetic tape drive and to return to the original position, a cartridge data reading device to selectively and contactlessly read data retained in each memory chip of the cartridges stored in the cartridge storage part and a computer to control them and to rewind the cartridges timely.”

The patent application was filed on April 4, 2016 (15/531,075).