Patents by Inventor Hans A. Hansen

Hans A. Hansen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Phlox Plant named 'Ruby Riot'
    Publication number: 20220174854
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Ruby Riot’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright-green, shiny, linear leaves. Flowering begins in late-April and continuing for up to five weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are reddish-purple to purplish-red with darker eye marks and a small notch and the tips of the petals. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘When I Dream’
    Patent number: PP34285
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘When I Dream’ producing large-sized rounded mounds of basal, cordate, leaves with acute apices, cordate bases and slightly wavy margins. The leaves are variegated having deep green margins and centers that begin the season chartreuse and become lutescent as the season progresses with intermediate color separation between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The campanulate flowers are near white with light lavender just above the foliage beginning in mid-June. ‘When I Dream’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Evening Gown’
    Patent number: PP34288
    Abstract: The new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant named ‘Evening Gown’ have cordate, moderately-dissected leaf blades of shiny purplish-black without any silvery overlay between the veins. The new plant has upright, branched panicles producing dense flowers. The new plant is vigorous and produces large clumps with many dense leaves and is useful in the landscape or in containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Violet Cascade’
    Patent number: PP34298
    Abstract: The new and distinct plant of Buddleia ‘Violet Cascade’ is a rounded-mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with very long, narrow, outwardly drooping flowering thyrse producing a waterfall effect over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant flowers of deep purple petals and orangish-yellow eyes that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides. No seed has been observed since development. The new plant is valuable for landscaping en masse, as an accent or as a potted specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Prime Time’
    Patent number: PP34304
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy, Russian Sage plant, Perovskia ‘Prime Time’ with medium height, dense habit of strong erect stems that remain upright through the growing season. The new plant is vigorous with many large, densely-arranged, rich lavender-purple flowers on branched stems with dark purplish-red calyces. Foliage is grey-green, simple, rhombic, fragrant and is retained well throughout the growing season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Garden, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Emperor's New Clothes’
    Patent number: PP34312
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Emperor's New Clothes’ with large-sized, rounded-mound habit of large ovate to nearly cordate foliage. Leaves begin the season with a yellowish-green with dark-green speckles, patches and streaks and mature to a minty green from tiny speckling on a white background, with patches and streaks of dark-green. The plant produces pale purple flared campanulate flowers on upright scapes well above the foliage beginning in mid-June and continuing for about four weeks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Rosy Cheeks’
    Patent number: PP34315
    Abstract: A new and distinct ornamental perennial Sedum plant named ‘Rosy Cheeks’ is characterized by tight-forming, compact, domed clumps with small-sized, blue-green glaucous foliage that becomes wine-colored with high light. The numerous vertical to arching branched flower stems resist falling over and opening up in the center of the plant throughout the growing season. Numerous stems produce a multitude of flowers of bright rosy-pink effect completely covering the top of the plant. The new plant is useful for the landscape in containers, as specimens, en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Above the Clouds’
    Patent number: PP34341
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Above the Clouds’ producing medium mounds of highly-glaucous, bluish, nearly-rounded to broadly ovate leaves of strongly glaucous bluish color. The flowers are white with light lavender centers and pale lavender backs. Flowers are subtended by floral bracts of a closely matching color making the whole scape more effective. ‘Above the Clouds’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Edge of Night’
    Patent number: PP34359
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Edge of Night’ comprising a compact rounded mound habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant for five to six weeks from late July to early September. Flower petals are bubblegum pink with dark pink veins radiating toward margin and deep red eye set off with column of butter-yellow pollen. The foliage is mostly ovate, rarely trilobed, and very dark mahogany-colored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • X plant named ‘Pineapple Smoothie’
    Patent number: PP34363
    Abstract: A new and distinct x Mangave plant named ‘Pineapple Smoothie’ characterized by moderate to rapid growth rate and compact habit of stiff, upright to outward pointing, succulent foliage gray-green coloring and burgundy speckling in the leaf centers and cherry red in the margins. The leaves have a creamy white margin. The new plant is suitable for use in the landscape or as a potted plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • x Mangave plant named ‘Maverick’
    Patent number: PP34364
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Maverick’ characterized by compact mounded habit of numerous lanceolate leaves with dense, overlapping, dark, greyed-purple spotting in strong ultraviolet light exposure. The new plant has numerous chartreuse flowers on dense, tall, stiff, highly branched scapes. The foliage has small, semi-flexible, marginal teeth and flexible to sharp apical mucro. The new plant is suitable as a potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape, and the flowers are loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Leading Lady Amethyst’
    Patent number: PP34371
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Leading Lady Amethyst’ with deep-green, moderately-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage, flower heads of light amethyst-purple with lighter interiors effectively showing off the dark purple spots on the inner surface. The plant habit is short, compact, tightly clumping and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Bright Idea’
    Patent number: PP34396
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Sedum plant named ‘Bright Idea’ is characterized by drought-tolerant, winter-hardy, tight, compact, rounded mounds, flower stems that remain upright in the center of the plant throughout the growing season, small, medium-green, glossy foliage with reddish blush along the edges and numerous bright yellow flowers clustered on small heads, on bright reddish stems, that completely covering the plant in early summer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • x plant named ‘Wingman’
    Patent number: PP34413
    Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Wingman’ characterized by a medium mound of narrow, fleshy mostly flat foliage that is glaucous becoming shiny, with small flexible cream-colored marginal teeth that become firm and orangish-colored when mature. Foliage is mostly outwardly and medio-variegated. The outer margins are dark reddish-green, the inner portion is dark reddish green with grey-green undertones and the region between the margin and center is yellowish with dark red broken spots. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘String Theory’
    Patent number: PP34419
    Abstract: A new and distinct Amsonia plant named ‘String Theory’ characterized by winter-hardy, compact, densely-stemmed, clean habit with linear, dark-green foliage that goes dormant in the winter; single, light periwinkle-blue, star-shaped flowers on medium height scapes flowering above the foliage beginning about early-May and effective for about four weeks. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen or en masse and also as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Pardon My Rose’
    Patent number: PP34434
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of bee balm plant named Monarda didyma ‘Pardon My Rose’ has short, compact, basally branching stems, dark green foliage with strong resistance to powdery mildew and numerous large flower heads of intense rose-pink-colored flowers creating excellent flower coverage. The new plant is attractive and useful in the garden landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Backlight’
    Patent number: PP34506
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox plant named ‘Backlight’ characterized by vigorous, dense, upright, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with dark-green, lanceolate leaves. Flowering begins in late-July and continuing for up to five weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the top of the plant in peak season. Petals are white with a pale yellow eye. The new plant shows excellent powdery mildew resistance. The new plant is especially suitable for a cut flower, for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • X plant named ‘Praying Hands’
    Patent number: PP34508
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Praying Hands’ characterized by habit that is rounded, mounded, with lanceolate foliage. The overall shape is globose as it develops and becomes tear-drop to pyriform-shaped in maturity. The numerous, dark, olive-green, lanceolate leaves have large, firm, deep wine-colored apical mucro, and few, small, widely-spaced marginal teeth. Leaf bases are outwardly and then become upwardly in the middle and strongly introrse toward the apices. Leaves are dark olive-green with small light wine spotting and thin deep wine-colored margins. The new plant is suitable as a potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Niagara falls’
    Patent number: PP34509
    Abstract: A new and distinct plant of ornamental Switch Grass named Panicum ‘Niagara Falls’ with wide, blue-green, broadly-arching foliage that retains its coloration into the fall. The upright and dense culms produce medium-height plants with broadly-spreading airy panicles beginning greyed reddish-purple and becoming tan seed heads that are retained into winter. The broadly-arching foliage produces a wide skirt effect below the panicles. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or in a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Electric Neon Purple’
    Patent number: PP34512
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Electric Neon Purple’ with lanceolate, dark-green, moderately-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage and flower heads of bright fuchsia-purple flowers for about five weeks. The plant habit is compact and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen