Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050166038 | High-performance hybrid processor with configurable execution units A new general method for building hybrid processors achieves higher performance in applications by allowing more powerful, tightly-coupled instruction set extensions to be implemented in reconfigurable logic. New instructions set configurations can be discovered and des... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050027971 | Defining instruction extensions in a standard programming language A method is provided for modifying a program written in a standard programming language so that when the program is compiled both an executable file is produced and an instruction is programmed into a programmable logic device of a processor system. The method includes ... | 02/03/2005 |