At times I've mistakenly thought of Amazon as being kind of one dimensional. Yes, they're the number one online shopping powerhouse and they dabble in other markets. Then Amazon did what Apple talked about forever and disappointingly never delivered. Amazon makes original TV shows and great ones at that winning awards. I watched Manchester by the Sea last weekend and it's a film produced by Amazon and it's up for an Oscar. Amazon shocked the market with their Echo device beating everyone to market. It was an original idea well executed and now the industry is falling over themselves to catch up.

Who has the best corporate reputation in 2016? Amazon, not Apple who landed in the very respectful fifth spot. Amazon's CEO owns Blue Origin that makes space rockets that are simply amazing and can re-land on earth flawlessly.

Back on earth, Apple is the king of tablets, but Amazon came out of nowhere last year to beat Microsoft's surface and become the number three tablet vendor in the world.

Though to be fair, while Amazon sells a range of tablets up to $429, it was really their $50 tablet that has catapulted them into the number three spot. Making $10 on a tablet, if anything at all, doesn't make the company a true tablet leader.

However, a new Amazon design patent surfaced this month at the U.S. Patent Office and it shows that Amazon may be interested in pushing further into Apple's face with a new Pro tablet sometime in the future.

Design patents issued by USPTO don't provide the public with any form of description of the invention, only the actual design from different angles which is what you'll see below.

Source: Patently Apple