Apple patents new MacBook Touch Bar with Force Touch technology
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San Francisco, Nov 28 (IANS) Apple is reportedly planning to add Force Touch sensors to the OLED Touch Bar on a future MacBook Pro.
A new patent published by the US Patent And Trademark Office, suggests Force Touch could have an expanded role in the future on the Mac, with the development of a new pressure-sensitive Touch Bar, reports MacRumors.
The patent offers visual examples of how force-sensing technology would be implemented in a MacBook Touch Bar, with Force Touch circuitry surrounding the touch-sensitive OLED strip.
“The secondary display and force-sensing circuitry may be encapsulated between two glass layers that are bonded to one another by a frit. In some embodiments, the force-sensing circuitry is formed from or constitutes part of, the frit,” reads the abstract of the patent application
Force Touch sensors were introduced for the first time with the first-generation Apple Watch and they allow