Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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Thank you for passing this patent info along. If I recall correctly the prior patents were specific to sapphire and spoke of LM being molddn around the sapphire to create a "unibody" phone. This was possible because sapphire (specifically) and LM have similar hardness coefficients. These new patents speak of "glass" being used and a third bonding material to bond the glass to LM. I take this to mean that Apple does not intent to use sapphire in the next phone but possibly gorilla glass (or similar) - but still intends to use a LM case. Whether or not it happens of course remains to be seen.