Other drug firms are thought to be also gathering this type of data, though it remains proprietary.
In fact, most of the technical details for this type of product are private and proprietary with restricted access.
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.
To facilitate electronic interchange of this type of data, an international, non-proprietary standard is needed; one that describes how messages can be constructed, sent and received and also how the data elements in the messages should be identified, measured and interpreted.
There's also a "Space Wire" port, which is "a type of proprietary interface use by the ESA, NASA and JAXA when the Cube actually goes into space," according to PC Pro.
A Citigroup spokesman, Jon Diat, said in an e-mail, "Yes, we sometimes use credit derivatives in a proprietary trade but this type of activity is a relatively small portion of our credit derivative activity".
This type of chip is referred to as the Proprietary CPU Chip.
However, it is not yet clear how the rule will be applied or how it will prevent some types of proprietary trading that are difficult to distinguish from market-making.
The resin can be a vinyl ester, epoxy, or polyester, while the reinforcement might be any one of a variety of fibres, ranging from glass through carbon, boron, and a number of proprietary types.
