Earlier this month the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Samsung that builds on their long standing project of a foldable smartphone that could fold like a booklet. It's possibly Samsung's killer smartphone if they ever get it off the ground in a timely manner. Samsung has a long history of working on this invention and in-part you could review many of Samsung's flexible display device archives here. Samsung's latest patent application shows a new hinge system that will support bending a single large display in half when the smartphone is closed or folded over as noted in our cover graphic. The key new features that stand out in Samsung's latest iteration of their foldable smartphone design include the integration of hologram and projector components. For more on this, see our full Patently Mobile report.

Side Note: Last week USPTO experienced a massive power failure which resulted in the delay of Apple's patent applications until Monday December 28th. Today USPTO has yet to publish Apple's patent application filings. Whether this is due to holiday scheduling is unknown at this time. Patently Apple will cover Apple's patent applications for December 31, 2015 when they're made available to us today or in the days to come.

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