Spectra Logic Assigned Patent

Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO, has been assigned a patent (8,976,470) developed by Thompson, Nathan Christopher, Boulder, CO, and Starr Matthew Thomas, Lafayette, CO, for a “tape cleaner drive arrangement for a tape library.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A tape cartridge library that is equipped with a cleaning device is described. The tape cartridge library essentially includes a plurality of tape cartridges each possessing recording tape media. A plurality of tape drives that read and write data to and from each of the tape cartridges. A tape cleaning drive incapable of transferring data to and from the recording tape media which is independent of the tape drives, the tape cleaning drive disposed entirely within the tape cartridge library. The tape cleaning drive automatically receives one of the tape cartridges and cleans its respective recording tape medium when a predetermined reason for cleaning the tape cartridge is justified.“

The patent application was filed on March 12, 2014 (14/207,025).