While Patently Apple has posted many reports on foldable devices over the years, as seen in our archives, it took until March 2021 before an Apple patent clearly spelled out the fact that one of their future foldable devices would in fact be a laptop. Apple clarified that point in 19 out of 20 of new patent claims that our report highlighted. Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple titled "Systems and Methods for Brightness or Color Control in Foldable Displays."