The Cupertino, Calif.-based company submitted a patent application last week for those white, rectangular shopping bags made from bleached sulfate paper. You know, the ones that tell passersby ...

According to the patent, which was filed in March but only recently made public, existing white paper bags made from recycled material are particularly flimsy. Apple says it has come up with a way ...

The first claim Apple makes, which informs its innovations, is that the new device is made of "a bag container formed of white paper with at least 60 percent post-consumer content", where the ...