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Vehicular Impact Signaling Device
An apparatus for the deployment of a visible plume to alert other motorists that a proximate motor vehicle has been involved in a collision.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6480918 | Lingering locks with fairness control for multi-node computer systems The processors in a multiprocessor computer system are grouped into nodes. The processors can request a lock, but the lock is granted to only one processor at any given time to provide exclusive processor access to the resource protected by the lock. When... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6389513 | Disk block cache management for a distributed shared memory computer system A buffer cache management structure, or metadata, for a computer system such as a NUMA (non-uniform memory access) machine, wherein physical main memory is distributed and shared among separate memories. The memories reside on separate nodes that are conn... | 05/14/2002 |
