Sony Group Assigned Patent

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,328,742) developed by Adachi, Naohiro, Tokyo, Japan, Nakashio, Eiji, Anno, Kazuo, Tochikubo, Shinya, Yamaga, Minoru, Iwama, Takanobu, Miyagi, Japan, and Abe, Masayoshi, Tokyo, Japan, for “cartridge memory having a plurality of memory banks, tape cartridge, and recording and reproducing system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A cartridge memory used for a tape cartridge includes: a communication unit that communicates with a recording and reproducing device using a wireless communication method defined by an ISO 14443-2 standard which is a wireless communication standard; a non-volatile memory with a storage capacity exceeding 16 KB; and a control unit that writes or reads data to or from the non-volatile memory on a word-by-word basis (2 bytes at a time) or on a block-by-block basis (32 bytes at a time). The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of memory banks each having a storage capacity of 128 KB or less. The control unit writes or reads data defined by a magnetic tape standard to or from one or two or more first memory banks among the plurality of the memory banks, and writes or reads additional data to or from one or two or more second memory banks other than the first memory bank.”

The patent application was filed on April 19, 2021 (17/234,224).