Apple wins a Patent that reveals possible Future Side-of-Device Input Surfaces for easy UI Scrolling and more
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that primarily relates to a user in the future being able to scroll a webpage or document down the side of a future iPhone or iPad instead of scrolling the face of the display where fingerprints are collected.
Trademark Office Touch Sensors Device Input Surface Distributed Force Apple Pencil Self Mixing Sensing System
Source: patentlyapple.com