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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6240490 | Comprehensive multilevel cache preloading mechanism in a multiprocessing simulation environment For simulation of a multiprocessor system having a multi-level cache hierarchy, possible and legal cache coherency state combinations are classified based on the state of one level one cache, and subclassified within the major classes to define unique com... | 05/29/2001 |