Patentseed

Aluminum unibody is so April 2009.  It’s time to move on to carbon fiber, but not the rice rocket carbon fiber of old, which according to Apple gives a “tired, unexciting look.”  Apple’s patent application 11/932,244 teaches how to make a carbon fiber structure with an “improved cosmetic surface.”  Let’s see if this construction finds its way to the MacBook or the iPhone first.  For those of you who get a kick out of “scrim”, “resin”, and “sheets of prepreg”, you’ve got some fine patent reading ahead of you.