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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8010953 | Method for compiling scalar code for a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) execution engine Performing scalar operations using a SIMD data parallel execution unit is provided. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, scalar operations in application code are identified that may be executed using vector operations in a SIMD data parallel executi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7774616 | Masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor Masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor is provided. One of the processors of a multiprocessor system is chosen to be a boot processor. The other processors of the multiprocessor system execute masking code that generates electromagnetic and/or therma... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7730279 | System for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor A system for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor is provided. A facility is provided in association with a processor for setting a local storage size limit. This facility is a privileged facility and can only be accessed by the operating system runni... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7519498 | Thermal sensing method and apparatus using existing ESD devices The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for measuring the temperature of a microprocessor through the use of ESD circuitry. The present invention uses diodes and an I/O pad within ESD circuits to determine the temperatur... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7493229 | Adjusting voltage for a phase locked loop based on temperature A mechanism for utilizing a single set of one or more thermal sensors, e.g., thermal diodes, provided on the integrated circuit device, chip, etc., to control the operation of the integrated circuit device, associated cooling system, and high-frequency PLLs is provi... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7472034 | System and method for test generation for system level verification using parallel algorithms A system and method for test generation for system level verification using parallel algorithms are provided. The present invention generates test patterns for system level tests by exploiting the scalability of parallel algorithms while allowing for data set colori... | 12/30/2008 |
