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."
Earlier this morning, Patently Apple posted a folding device report titled "Apple invents a unique lighting system for Foldable Devices that implements separate brightness controls for the 2 Display Halves." Today, Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent relating to self-healing folding device displays that could hide minor scratches and dents.