Iron Mountain Assigned Patent

Iron Mountain, Inc., Boston, MA, has been assigned a patent (11,278,939) developed by Pribble, Kelly, Dover, NJ, for a “media recovery technology.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of remediating a media asset comprising a magnetic tape includes preliminarily cleaning the media asset, treating the media asset, and finally cleaning the media asset. Treating the media asset includes baking the media asset, determining whether adjacent layers of the tape are stuck to each other, and re-baking the media asset. If adjacent layers of the tape are stuck to each other, the method includes submerging the magnetic tape in a cleaning bath for a predetermined period of time, unwinding the magnetic tape from a supply reel to a take-up reel at an unwind speed while drying the magnetic tape, and rewinding the magnetic tape onto the supply reel at a rewind speed before re-baking the media asset.”

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2017 (15/635,274).