{"id":877301,"date":"2026-06-19T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/877301\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:00:19","slug":"samsungs-wild-patent-shows-a-foldable-phone-that-folds-itself-into-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/877301\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung’s wild patent shows a foldable phone that folds itself into a box\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung<\/a> has been granted a US design patent for what might be its most unusual display concept yet.<\/p>\n

The patent is for a device that, when folded, resembles a long rectangular brick and can unfold to form a much larger screen. It was filed in January 2023 and only granted this month.<\/p>\n

\"Bow,<\/p>\n

\t\tFixyFlow<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0So what does this Samsung patent actually show?<\/p>\n

The patent, numbered US D1,130,402 S, has been granted to Samsung Display, the display arm of Samsung Electronics. It talks about the appearance of what it simply calls a \u201cdisplay device.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Looking at the drawings, the device in its rolled state resembles a thick, elongated brick, with display panels<\/a> wrapped tightly around the body. There\u2019s a visible mechanism at one end as well. In their unrolled state, those same panels extend outward into what appears to be a significantly larger flat display.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"CAD<\/p>\n

\t\tFixyFlow<\/a><\/p>\n

The patent includes 14 drawing sheets showing the device from every angle, both in folded and unfolded states (via FixyFlow<\/a>). Keep in mind that this is a design patent, one that only projects the look of the device. The drawings don\u2019t tell us what materials it uses or how durable it is.<\/p>\n

Does this mean Samsung is actually building a brick phone?<\/p>\n

The appeal of packing that much screen into something pocketable could be real. That said, there is a very long road between a design patent filed in 2023 and an actual product you can buy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Samsung<\/p>\n

\t\tFixyFlow<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking from some experience, only a handful of such patents<\/a> ever make it to the market. Samsung has been exploring foldable<\/a> and rollable display options for years now. The new concept appears to combine them in a single device, but it doesn\u2019t look like a well-thought-out product to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This one is worth watching, for sure, but don\u2019t clear out your pocket just yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung has been granted a US design patent for what might be its most unusual display concept yet.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":877302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,12492,2161,356546,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-877301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-phones","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-foldables","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116774543643629318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}