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Apple (AAPL) Receives U.S. Patent for One Element of Its Shanghai Store Design

October 1, 2013 12:24 PM EDT
Well, it's not exactly a product patent for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), but it's still noteworthy.

CNET pointed out Tuesday that Apple won a U.S. patent covering a glass cylinder which leads customers down to its Apple Store in Shanghai, China. The patent is titled, Glass building panel and building made therefrom, had the following abstract:

A building panel and a building formed therefrom, where the building includes a plurality of building panels arranged to form a cylindrical shape, where each panel comprises a single, or monolithic, glass piece, where each glass piece is substantially rectangular and includes two opposing long sides extending in a height direction and two opposing short sides extending substantially in a width direction, and where each glass piece forms an identical circular arc when viewed from either of the two opposing short sides.

Shares of Apple are up 2.3 percent on the session.


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