Liquidmetal will be part of the iPhone 6 on release date, a new report suggested, but the alloy will not wrap the iPhone 5S as earlier speculated, not just yet.

Instead, certain components of the next-gen iPhone will be made of Liquidmetal alloy, according to MacRumors, basing its reports on the new batch of patents that were identified to known Apple inventors.

From the 17 patent filings unearthed by the Apple-focused site, it was hinted that Apple engineers want to use Liquidmetal on the whole Home button mechanism, which has been embedded with the TouchID fingerprint scanner in the latest iPhone version.

The planned pressure sensor upgrade to the Home button is meant to give it better durability.

"Because switches on consumer electronic devices are operated frequently, the materials used to fabricate the switch must be capable of repeated deformation and return to their original configuration," MacRumors reported the patent documents as saying.

With Liquidmetal in the Home button equation, Apple hopes to add elasticity to the iconic iOS device key, thus increasing its stress threshold point.

Another use for the alleged indestructible material is to serve as a dependable "substrate for touch sensors." By creating an amorphous metal substrate with the help of Liquidmetal alloy, Apple will gain "greater control and higher density of touch sensing arrays, thus giving greater positional precision for touch sensing," said the MacRumors report.

Finally, as the iPhones and iPads are popular targets for tear downs, Apple aims to lockout any attempts of prying in with the iPhone 6 by using tamper-resistant screws to hold together the handset's intricate components.

With screws that are made of Liquidmetal alloy, "the fastener and the substrate into which the fastener is fitted into are permanently fastened via an interlock formed from the interlock portion during the fastening process," said the patent filing.

This last patent makes sense as Apple is known to tightly guard its products' integrity by discouraging unauthorised tinkering by non-Apple personnel. Even before the planned use of Liquidmetal fastener, the tech giant uses propriety screws to seal down the components that make its iPhones and iPads.

MacRumors noted that the patent filings date back to July 2012, giving better possibility that Liquidmetal will be featured in parts via the iPhone 6. Another solid clue that that material will be introduced with the handset is Apple's deal with Liquidmetal Technologies that was finalised way back in 2010.

Liquidmetal is among the fresh innovations that reportedly will be part of the hotly-anticipated iPhone 6 release date, which is rumoured to take place as early as May 2014.