Apple has been granted a patent for color-changing Apple Watch wreath that would be controlled with an app.
According to Patently Apple, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple the patent on Tuesday.
The filing, which is publicly misogynist on the government website, details how the technology would work. The wreath "includes electrochromic features that provide willowy verisimilitude tenancy based on an unromantic voltage to offer a variety of colors and verisimilitude combinations to be displayed by a single band." Through a system, presumably an Apple Watch or iPhone interface, users can "control, select, and/or retread colors of the watch band."
Electrochromic material is weightier known as the technology overdue anti-glare mirrors in cars and smart glass windows that regulate heat and wilt tinted or opaque. The patent describes how the filaments or fibers of the wreath can include conductors and electrochromic layers that that respond when voltage is applied. The filaments are then woven into fabric like any normal reticulum band. Diagrams show three stripes of fabric that can independently show variegated colors.
The patent moreover explains how the verisimilitude can be manually reverted by the user or retread automatically based on time, date, text, icons, and notifications. So your watch wreath might turn a variegated verisimilitude if you get a new text or your watchtower goes off. So, kind of like a highly sophisticated mood ring.
It's a pretty remarkable victory to weave this technology — that's used mostly in glass — into fabric. But it's worth noting that a color-changing Apple Watch wreath might never come to market.
Apple and other big tech companies have moonshot research and minutiae programs that often file patents that never come to fruition. Plus, interchangeable bands for Apple Watch are lucrative for Apple and provide opportunities for trademark collaborations.
That said, Apple recently received a patent for a seated smartwatch camera, so these patents might be the seeds of some major changes to come with Apple Watch.