Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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Clarification: a production prototype is the output of a production process that follows from R&D, engineering, and testing that has already occurred. In other words, it's a trial run on the processes where financial commitments/investments and design have already been made ( vs. a precursor to engineering, etc.)

By the time a production prototype has been produced, the producer is getting close to real manufacturing. it could still take some time to finalize, but production prototypes are getting a lot closer to the real thing, vs. "concept prototypes" that would come before resources are allocated to the point of being able to produce a "production" prototype that would be used to test/confirm the manufacturing processes, etc. on a trial run for nstance.