The proprietary print heads are called MicroPiezo.
The company said it uses a proprietary method to print the photo on the case so that it resists scratching.
Competitor IntoNow "hears" what's on TV by listening to the show's audio signal and matching it to the program using proprietary technology (Sound Print), then pulling relevant content from closed captioning systems.
23 LEDs embedded into their proprietary FPCB (flexible printed circuit board) design can display up to four digits, letting users keep track of everything from jump counts, to calories burned, to even interval traning.
"…Developing very high-efficiency, low-cost solar cells and modules by ink-jet printing their proprietary 'silicon ink' onto thin-crystalline silicon wafers.
To get itself into the digital game Polaroid is now trying a backdoor approach self-service kiosks where people will be approach self-serviceemory cards from their digital cameras, view each image and print it, using proprietary Polaroid technology.
Under the nom de guerre of Redrock Biometrics, the company's technology is waging war on the world's legions of identification cards, pin numbers, passwords, and voice identification technologies with a combination of off-the-shelf hardware and proprietary software to identify palm-prints to verify user identity.
As an industry note, Stratasys is one of the more established players in this type of printing, with its own proprietary process called FDM or fused deposition modeling.
When Keurig 2.0 finally hit stores in August 2014, it turned out the proprietary system was actually the ink printed on the labels of Keurig's coffee pods (K-cups).
After that, Mr. Cash said, he discovered through someone in the medical examiner's office that members of the office had printed out what he considered proprietary information about M-FISys and had turned it over to the F.B.I.
