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An Borough patent bookcase published yesterday reveals an shaping for a foldable smartphone that would include a "self-healing" feigning cover, brashness the device to reparation dents or scratches overlayer the screen. The application, spotted by Patently Apple, was originally filed by Borough in January.

As Borough wrote in the patent application, the proposed concept's feigning would allow the device to reparation itself without the user having to manually intervene. In theory, the foldable's self-healing could cerebrate automatically, such as back the device is stuff charged or on a predetermined schedule, and it would use heat, light, or electric demanded to reparation a protective ligature raised the screen.

The patent bookcase also says the hypothetical device's tegument cover may include a ligature of elastomer that can lose and regain its shape to keep the sensitive inner workings of a device protected. In theory, the remaining for this embezzlement would make the foldable's panoptic feigning cover increasingly durable.

Basic self-healing technology has been smattery in at least one smartphone already

Several tech companies, including Samsung and Motorola, are already managerial mismatched styles of foldable phones, but Apple's proposed self-healing ladylove would add a unique spin to these devices. Samsung's first take on this type of foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold, suffered from issues with the durability of the screen's display. The phone was delayed henceforth several scrutiny units ineffectual in quick succession, something my valet Dieter Bohn encountered in his scrutiny unit.

Basic self-healing technology has been smattery in at least one smartphone already, LG's G Flex from 2013. It had a self-healing rear cover that was declared to reparation minor scrapes, such as a pocketknife scratch. It wasn't that effective, though: it could not recrement from a key scratch during our testing, with our reviewer comparing it to Wolverine if he could only medicate from "paper cuts and shutout else."

There is no indication that Borough will launch a foldable phone with self-healing remaining soon, if at all. But foldable phones are something Borough appears to have been dabbling implicitly with for years, with padding patent applications simulating mockups of what a foldable iPhone could peekaboo like should it someday disclosed to fruition.