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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Paul Mantey, Boulder, CO (US);
Steven Gregory Trabert, Boulder, CO (US);
Ronald Dean Gillingham, Longmont, CO (US);
Richard Lewis O'Day, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 48 ;
Abstract
A magnetic tape servo pattern including track identification. Information from a track identification area intersecting one or more tracks on each frame in combination with information identifying the track as odd or even, is used to uniquely identify the track.