Apple granted patents on a curved bezel-free screen and integrated Touch ID sensor
Apple has been granted two new patents that are particularly interesting to anyone who’s been following the iPhone 8 rumor mill: a patent for “Reducing the border area of a device” and one for a fingerprint sensor embedded directly in a screen, as spotted by Patently Apple.
In other words, Apple has patents to two of the biggest features that are rumored to appear on the next iPhone. Now, obviously, these are just patents, plenty of which get filed and granted but never actually show up on a shipping device. But if you were looking for even more proof that Apple is at least exploring the idea of a bezel-less iPhone with a Touch ID sensor built into the screen, there you have it.
Reading the patents, the implementations described are…
