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To date, Patently Apple has covered 88 Apple patents relating to possible future foldable, scrollable and/or flexible display devices. Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that advances their work on this project; a project taken up by Apple's elite Special Project Group (SPG). While today's patent does touch on a multiple possible future form factors, the main focus of the patent is on delivering a motorized folding device mechanism that could partially or fully close a foldable device, like an iPhone, prior to hitting the ground in a fall event...

Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a possible future iPhone (or iPad) that could provide users with the ability to expand the display when needed.

Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a future Apple Watch with an all-new modular sensing system that could combine Touch ID and ECG input. The proposed Apple Watch modular sensing system closely resembles the Touch ID sensor found on Apple's iPad Air.