Did Apple just invent an iPhone that won't need a case?

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Did Apple just invent an iPhone that won't need a case?
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Could this make it to the rumoured iPhone Ultra?

As is often the case, the latest Apple patent granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office initially doesn't appear to give a huge amount away. Naming Apple's senior director for materials engineering and product design, Chris Prest, as lead inventor,But dig into the detail, and we find it describes a method for producing an abrasion-resistant housing for electronic devices.

Figure 2A above illustrates the back glass panel of an iPhone featuring Spatial Composites with embedded abrasion-resistant members. Figure 2C below shows a cross-sectional view of a housing with example embedded abrasion-resistant members, while figure 8 illustrates an example process for forming the housing. Other illustrations in the patent documentation show different shaped structures for the abrasion-resistant structure and substrate surface.

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