February 28th, 2022 
Marty Figgs 
Many of you were probably wowed by the Vivo Apex, a concept phone with way too many futuristic things on board, at MWC 2018. The Apex has extraordinarily small bezels and an in-display fingerprint sensor, but arguably its most innovative feature is its popup front-facing camera that allows it to avoid the dreaded notch. Andy Rubin has revealed that a patent for this solution was granted to Essential Products, Inc in 2017.
It turns out that Essential was granted a patent for a no-notch screen with a popup camera in 2017 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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