Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11698663 B2) for “peripheral housing for a computing machine.” It hints at future iterations of the Magic Keyboard that contain options not accessible within the present model.
Concerning the patent
Apple’s concept is for a keyboard/case for the iPad to be tailor-made to offer further or enhanced machine performance. The corporate’s patent includes peripheral housing that defines a cavity and an inside housing quantity.
The iPad might be moveably hooked up to the peripheral housing. A battery, a processor, and reminiscence are disposed fully throughout the inside housing quantity. The cavity outlined by the housing might be an aperture and the show can have a peripheral form that corresponds to the form of the aperture. The keyboard/case might be utilized in quite a lot of angles and set-ups.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “A computing machine can embrace a housing together with a peripheral housing defining an aperture, the peripheral housing having a continuing cross-sectional space. The computing machine may embrace a show having a primary main floor and a second main floor opposing the primary main floor, the show disposed throughout the aperture outlined by the peripheral housing and hooked up to the housing at a number of places such that the primary main floor and the second main floor of the show are considerably unobstructed by every other portion of the computing machine.”
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