Analysts have long been call on Apple to get on with set in motion its firstfoldable iPhone , but patent natural action suggest the company has more ambitious plans .
As spotted byPatently Apple , Apple has applied for a patent ( US-20230221766 - A1 ) for a rollable display with the US Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) . artificer Que Anh S Nguyen and Christopher Jones depict a flexible display that can be rolled up from one or both side in various scenario .
The screen will be free-base on either OLED or micro - LED technology , with the LED print on a pliant polymer cornerstone . In another variant , flexible glass is used for this purpose ; the inventors envisage that the thickness of the glass coating on the inside will taper from the edge to the center , ca-ca the glass even more svelte for wander .
While pundits remain spell-bound by the close down tech available for the iPhone , this invention will not be limited to smartphones . The inventors also discuss its use in tablets and portable electronic devices , include a MacBook .
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The patent spec is relatively short , comprising just twelve pages , but it defend only one entranceway in an ongoing serial of such applications . Only two days sooner , a patent called “ interior coating for crank structures in electronic equipment ” was approved , and one of the authors of this patent worked on that one .
Que Anh S Nguyen is the lead author of at least 12 patents at Apple , all within the same realm of flexile and folding display . The earliest patent was approved by the USPTO in March 2017 and is titled “ Transparent passage layer to keep pliability from coated spyglass . ”
It ’s deserving noting that , while patent action often provide a coup d’oeil into Apple ’s futurity , it does not guarantee that such a mathematical product will unquestionably set up . Apple habitually undertake research and patent activity in various direction , even if there are no immediate program for a corresponding product personal line of credit .
This article to begin with appeared onMacweltand was translate and edited by David Price .
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