Apple’s patent suggests that a Touch Base iMac maybe in the works at one of Apple’s Top Secret Labs. According to patentlyapple.com a major iMac Touch patent was being quietly published in Europe. We can not validate if this report is true in nature .
The report clearly points to this euro filing so you can verify or "validate" this patent:
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2010006210…