Patents Examined by Anne Marie Grunberg
  • Patent number: 11617320
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of cucumber hybrid DRCE9615, cucumber inbred line EUR-Y319-3065GY, and cucumber inbred line EUR-Y318-5035GY. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid DRCE9615, cucumber inbred line EUR-Y319-3065GY, and cucumber inbred line EUR-Y318-5035GY and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a cucumber plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid DRCE9615, cucumber inbred line EUR-Y319-3065GY, and cucumber inbred line EUR-Y318-5035GY comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Belgin Cukadar
  • Patent number: 11612121
    Abstract: Methods of producing sugar cane transplant units that includes planting a sugar cane propagation material in a planting container that has a volume of 10 to 200 cubic centimeters; growing the sugar plant to an age of at least 4 months; harvesting the stalks of the sugar cane plant when the stalks have a length of 10 to 50 centimeters; cutting the harvested stalks into stalk segments, wherein the stalk segments are cut to a length of 1 to 5 centimeters; and planting one or more of the stalk segments into a planting container that has a volume from 10 to 200 cubic centimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Adilson Donizeti Correa Da Silva, Luis Batista, Luiz Vidal
  • Patent number: PP34994
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHA202502’, particularly characterized by having purplish-red flowers with dark red-purple lips, flowers that are flat in lateral view, and flowers that have a bump and ridge on the upper and lower side of the apical lobes, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Anthura B.V.
    Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
  • Patent number: PP35003
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of grapevine plant named ‘SV35-182-214’ particularly characterized by medium sized clusters of green skinned berries which are large, crisp, and sweet with muscat flavor. The vines are very responsive to exogenous gibberellic acid application and trunk girdling which induces a size increase of the berries more than double the natural size. Vines are fruitful when spur pruned to two buds per cane with new shoots producing one or two clusters per shoot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sunview Vineyards of California, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy F Bourne
  • Patent number: PP35014
    Abstract: A new variety of Grandiflora rose plant suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of pink & yellow striped coloration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Early Morning LLC
    Inventor: Christian Bedard
  • Patent number: PP35020
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of shallot plant with high resistance to Peronospora destructor and long storability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventors: Timo Christiaan Petter, Lennaert Crispijn Aardse
  • Patent number: PP35026
    Abstract: ‘BB14-232PT-2’, is the second known genotype selected in a tropical environment of Peru. ‘BB14-232PT-2’ does not require chill-hours for either budbreak or fruit production, possibly because ‘BB14-232PT-2’ does not develop endo-dormancy. The fruit of ‘BB14-232PT-2’ is a medium to large size berry, with medium dark blue color, excellent fruit firmness and crunchy texture. The eating quality of ‘BB14-232PT-2’ is excellent and superior to many of the varieties currently grown in Peru, with a sugar/acidity balance of 16 to 20. Time of fruit production in ‘BB14-232PT-2’ can be regulated by the pruning date and environment conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BB IP Repository, LLC
    Inventors: Edmund J. Wheeler, Maria Pilar Banados
  • Patent number: PP35030
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Thuja plant named ‘RutThu2’, characterized by its compact, mounding, spreading form with unusual, thread-leaf shoots; growth in USDA Zone 8a, growth in full sun and part-shade conditions in landscape and container production, and better heat tolerance than other thread-leaf forms of Thuja occidentalis or Thuja plicata ‘Whipcord’.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: John M. Ruter
  • Patent number: PP35033
    Abstract: A new Lantana plant named ‘LANZ0047’ having medium size mature deep red flowers, excellent flower production, vigorous plant growth and uniform dense semi-spreading habit with medium sized dark green foliage and very low seed set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Wendy R. Bergman
  • Patent number: PP35039
    Abstract: ‘VALCOSTA2’ is a new and distinctive Ctenanthe plant which is characterized by foliage with large laminae borne on long, upright petioles that arise directly from the base of the plant, a light greyed-green adaxial laminar surface with broad portions of the lamina adjacent to veins prominently colored with a mixture of dark green to yellow-green, an abaxial laminar surface which is colored with a mixture of dark greyed-purple and brown and lightly suffused with yellow-green at the margins, and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation. The new variety is typically produced as an indoor ornamental plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Gebr. Valstar Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Oscar Valstar
  • Patent number: PP35052
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Veronica plant named ‘Allvenjder’, characterized by its upright plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit and moderate growth rate; freely basal branching habit; dark green-colored leaves; freely flowering habit; long and dense inflorescences with numerous light pinkish purple-colored flowers; and good performance as a garden plant and cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ALLPLANTS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus T. J. van den Hoogen
  • Patent number: PP35056
    Abstract: A new garden type Chrysanthemum plant named ‘CIFZ0098’ particularly distinguished by its medium size plant with mound plant habit, medium sized decorative flowers with dark lavender/pink flower color, and a natural season response late September/early October.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: PP35060
    Abstract: ‘DRACAL01’ is a new and distinctive variety of Calathea plant which is characterized by a fast rate of growth, large laminas borne on long petioles, a dark green upper foliar surface with unique multicolored variegation, a dark greyed-purple lower foliar surface with an irregular greyed-orange ring present, and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dragontree Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Heyens
  • Patent number: PP35067
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Polemonium plant named ‘Golden Feathers’, characterized by its upright to somewhat outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; green and yellow green variegated leaves; freely flowering habit; light purple-colored flowers; good garden performance; and resistance to Powdery Mildew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: PLANT GROWERS AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD.
    Inventors: Howard Bentley, Steven Eggleton
  • Patent number: PP35085
    Abstract: A new Verbena plant particularly distinguished by a semi-mounding to trailing plant habit, and dark violet and light purple flowers, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Klemm + Sohn GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ruijun Li
  • Patent number: PP35089
    Abstract: A new and distinctive cultivar of flowering crabapple, botanically known as Malus x adstringens ‘Jefnite’, that is characterized by its narrow columnar plant habit and its glossy foliage that is purple in color all summer and fall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: JEFFRIES NURSERIES LTD
    Inventor: Wilbert Ronald
  • Patent number: PP35091
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of grapevine plant named ‘SV35-210-349’ particularly characterized by its very large, very crisp yellow green colored berries that have a neutral flavor that is characteristic of Vitis vinifera and which ripen in late September to early October in the McFarland, Calif. area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sunview Vineyards of California, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy F Bourne
  • Patent number: PP35115
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Miscanthus sinensis plant named ‘Sunlit Satin’ that is characterized by its medium size compact, upright plant habit with a tight base; an average of 1.3 m in height, its upright flower tassels that when opening that have a satiny sheen and are pink in color, its foliage that has a thick central variegated stripe to provide early in the season interest, its flower tassels that turn to copper color later in the season above the maturing foliage, its foliage that has a thick central variegated stripe to provide early in the season interest, and its resilient, wiry foliage with wispy leaf ends that easily follow the direction of the wind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Robinson
  • Patent number: PP35132
    Abstract: A new Pelargonium plant named ‘PEQZ0098’ particularly distinguished by lilac-violet colored inflorescences with semi-double florets, held above light green foliage, on a vigorous spreading, semi-trailing plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Mitchell E. Hanes
  • Patent number: PP35138
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Miscanthus sinensis plant named ‘Red Zenith’ that is characterized by its exhibits a strong and vigorous plant habit, creating a v-shaped form tightly gathered at the base, its average plant height of 2 m, its foliage that is dark green in color with well-delineated white strips turning yellow striped in autumn, flowers that are vibrant red in sunlight with a pink sheen when young and fading to a paler red in late autumn, and its upright v-shaped flower tassels on thick peduncles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Robinson