MagStor Assigned Patent

MagStor Inc., Columbus, OH, has been assigned a patent (12511184) developed by Saliba; George A., Boulder, CO, for “method and system for diagnosing tape cartridge and tape drive errors at a customer site and a tape cartridge used therein.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and system for diagnosing tape cartridge and tape drive errors at a customer site and a tape cartridge used in the method and the system is disclosed herein. The tape cartridge includes a cartridge housing; a cartridge reel that is rotatably secured to the cartridge housing; tape media that is secured to the cartridge reel; and non-volatile cartridge memory comprising initial calibrated tape cartridge error data stored thereon, the initial calibrated tape cartridge error data comprising error information for a new state of the tape cartridge prior to the tape cartridge being used in an end-user tape drive so that subsequent errors associated with the tape cartridge and/or the end-user tape drive are able to be compared with the initial calibrated tape cartridge error data to determine whether the subsequent errors are associated with the tape cartridge, the end-user tape drive, or both the cartridge and the drive.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-05-21 (18/199962).