MUMBAI, India, June 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647069544 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation on June 03, 2026, for Magnetic Tape Reuse Across Products.
Inventors include Iben, Icko; Swanson, David Lee; Judd, Kevin; and Liang, Jason.
The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.
Abstract: A method, in accordance with one aspect, includes writing, by a tape drive, data tracks to a data band of a magnetic tape having servo bands flanking the data band, the writing being performed using a magnetic head that is not designed for a format of the magnetic tape. The writing includes overwriting a portion of each of the servo bands with the data tracks. A method, in accordance with another aspect, includes writing data tracks to a data band using a magnetic head that is not designed for a format of the magnetic tape. An effective pitch of servo readers of the magnetic head used simultaneously during the writing matches a servo reader pitch specification of the format of the magnetic tape. An average effective pitch of write transducers of the magnetic head is greater than a data track pitch specification of the format of the magnetic tape.
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