Apple makes a major shift to a 12-year-old Invention of a Digital Periodical to refocus it on a Future Foldable Device
Apple acquired a patent about a digital periodical dating back to 2008 from the inventor Harry Vartanian. Then in 2011 Vartanian filed the patent under his company name "HJ Laboratories." Patently Apple first reported on this invention the sixth time that it was granted, this time under Apple Inc. Apple has continued to add and modify this invention and in total now has five patents to its credit.
It's clear that Apple saw the potential for this invention/patent down the road, but not until last week did we finally see how Apple has taken a radical shift from its original patent, focusing their new patent claims towards all-things related to a "foldable device"