Is Apple going medieval?
, the patent, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office last Thursday and filed in November, lists the iPhone and the iPad as possible candidates for the tech, along with several other unbranded devices like a TV screen and a vehicle dashboard.
Apple imagines that an iPhone screen — or what-have-you — may "be moved between an unrolled state in which the display is planar and a rolled state in which a rollable portion of the display is rolled up for storage," the patent says. In other words, the screen could seemingly be flat while a portion of it is rolled up.
For protection, the rollable portion may be covered in a layer of glass that's "locally thinned" to "facilitate rolling." Added compressive strength to the glass layer while rolled, the patent claims, may help it withstand scratches and other damage to the surface.
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