{"id":18795,"date":"2023-01-26T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/foldable-iphone-launch-soon-apple-wins-patent-for-crack-resistant-folding-display\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T02:30:54","slug":"foldable-iphone-launch-soon-apple-wins-patent-for-crack-resistant-folding-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/foldable-iphone-launch-soon-apple-wins-patent-for-crack-resistant-folding-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Foldable iPhone Launch Soon?  Apple wins patent for crack-resistant folding display"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"otherDiv\">\n<h2>New Apple Patents Point To A Foldable iPhone?<\/h2>\n<p>The latest Apple patent listed with the United States Patent and Trademark Organization (USPTO) suggests that the company is looking to engineer a three-layer foldable display that could be difficult to crack.  The display in question would use a flexible substrate layer, a thin-film transistor layer, and a protective layer.  The goal for the protective layer on top would be to protect the flexible substrate, which is the most susceptible layer in a foldable display, from cracking during the rigors of regular use.<\/p>\n<p>The patent comes courtesy of GizmoChina, which states that Apple has also secured a second patent for a display technology with a protective layer that can heal itself from minor scratches and regular wear and tear.  It&#8217;s not entirely clear how this technology will work, though it could involve a composite chemical material that comprises the top layer of the display to repair some scratches.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, the concept of a self-healing display has been around for a long time, but has yet to see any real-world implementation.  Apple hasn&#8217;t even shown real-world signs of launching a foldable iPhone, and its longtime market rival, Samsung, has one of the most established foldable smartphone lineups today.  However, rumors have regularly tipped a 2023 launch date for the folding iPhone, which is likely the reason for the excitement surrounding this Apple patent filing.<\/p>\n<p>While neither patent really guarantees anything, it will be interesting to see if that translates into consumer products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Apple Patents Point To A Foldable iPhone? The latest Apple patent listed with the United States Patent and Trademark Organization (USPTO) suggests that the company is looking to engineer a three-layer foldable display that could be difficult to crack. The display in question would use a flexible substrate layer, a thin-film transistor layer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[292,294,296,290,295,291,145,293,262],"class_list":["post-18795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","tag-apple","tag-crackresistant","tag-display","tag-foldable","tag-folding","tag-iphone","tag-launch","tag-patent","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}