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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5437305 | Flow control valve A valve includes a body having a valve element positioned therein. The valve element includes a bore therethrough, which is selectively alignable with bores through the valve body. As the valve element is moved to position the valve element bore in an ask... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5431482 | Horizontal natural gas storage caverns and methods for producing same The invention provides caverns and methods for producing caverns in bedded salt deposits for the storage of materials that are not solvents for salt. The contemplated salt deposits are of the bedded, non-domed variety, more particularly salt found in laye... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5408644 | Method and apparatus for improving the performance of partial stripe operations in a disk array subsystem A posting memory used in conjunction with a drive array to increase the performance of fault tolerant disk array write operations. When the posting memory flushes dirty data back to the disk array, the posting memory coalesces or gathers contiguous small ... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5369753 | Method and apparatus for achieving multilevel inclusion in multilevel cache hierarchies A method for achieving multilevel inclusion in a computer system with first and second level caches. The caches align on a "way" basis by their respective cache controllers communicating with each other which blocks of data they are replacing and which of... | 11/29/1994 |
