We all know what iPhone 4 did to Apple. It brought a bad name to the Cupertinos no thanks to the Antennagate issue. Apple offered a temporary workaround for the signal eating issue in the form of a bumper case. It turns out that the bumper case was not the end of the antennagate fix process as Apple went back to the drawing board and came up with a practical fix for this serious issue, and patented it under the title “Logo antenna”.

logo antenna

As evident from the name, the idea is to place the antenna behind the popular Apple logo thus making it invulnerable to conductive materials:

While Apple was undergoing their “Antennagate” moment earlier this year, Apple’s engineers were long at work on a new kind of antenna which Apple dubs the “logo antenna.” This new antenna is to hide behind the famous Apple logo thereby allowing it to gain a stronger signals without intervening metal or other conductive housing walls interfering. It’s interesting to note that this is Apple’s third telephonic Macbook related patent in the second half of 2010 and would all but confirm this is a definite trend Apple is focused on. And lastly, it should be noted that Apple foresees the logo antenna working itself down into miniatures and wearables such as wrist watches and pendants. It appears that Apple may have another winning invention on their hands.

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