Patents Examined by Susan McCormick-Ewoldt
  • New guinea impatiens variety SAKIMP070
    Patent number: 11612123
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP070 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventor: Chihiro Sato
  • Apple tree rootstock named ‘G.257’
    Patent number: PP35016
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of apple tree rootstock Malus domestica x Malus robusta hybrid ‘G.257’ is described. The new variety is a semi-dwarfing rootstock that is resistant to fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) and crown rot (Phytophthora cactorum) and tolerant to the replant disease complex. The ‘G.257’ rootstock is useful in that it can be propagated clonally and used as a rootstock or root system for apple trees as well as for interstems of apple trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: Cornell University, The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Gennaro Fazio, Terence Lee Robinson, Herbert Sanders Aldwinckle, James N. Cummins
  • plant named ‘UF19-42-14’
    Patent number: PP35023
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Coleus (Coleus scutellarioides) plant named ‘UF19-42-14’, selected for having a combination of desirable traits that make it well-suited for good performance as an annual plant in the summer landscape. ‘UF19-42-14’ has contrasting yellow green leaf color with prominent dark purplish red veins, and excellent overall plant vigor in all trials. ‘UF19-42-14’ maintains its foliage late into the Fall season until frost. It has a very stable leaf color in both sun and shade and was well-branched and vigorous in all locations trialed. Due to its striking color combination and vigorous upright and spreading habit, this plant will likely be grown in landscapes as a specimen annual plant filling a large amount of space with color in a very short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Clark
  • tree named ‘RVF-1’
    Patent number: PP35031
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Acer tree named ‘RVF-1’ that is characterized by its fast growth rate. Its consistent fall foliage colors that is grey-red in color in early November, its foliage with good resistance to diseases and pests, and its high tolerance to extreme heat and humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: RENFROE VALLEY FARMS LLC
    Inventor: Jeremy Brantley Worthy
  • plant named ‘Pacbellinda’
    Patent number: PP35040
    Abstract: A new and distinct Zonal Geranium plant named ‘Pacbellinda’, characterized by its upright and uniformly rounded plant habit; moderate vigorous growth habit and moderate growth rate; freely basal branching habit; dark green-colored leaves; early and freely flowering habit; and semi-double light purple and reddish purple bi-colored flowers that are held above the foliar plane on strong peduncles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ELSNER pac JUNGPFLANZEN GbR
    Inventor: Martin Geibel
  • Strawberry plant named ‘FPS-14_552-008’
    Patent number: PP35047
    Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of strawberry plant named ‘FPS-14_552-008’. This new strawberry plant named ‘FPS-14_552-008’ is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California, and is primarily characterized by its red fruit color, medium fruit size, and conical fruit shape; excellent fruit flavor, medium skin firmness, with seeds typically held even with the surface; very smooth fruit surface, even in color, with a slight difference in size between primary and secondary fruit; medium to large plant size, upright in habit with medium density; medium yellow green foliage color, and medium to large foliage size; and fruiting trusses typically held level with to below the plant, with medium to high pubescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fragaria Plant Sciences, B.V.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Nelson, Daniel S. Nelson, Scott C. Nelson, Jeffrey D. Nelson
  • Norway spruce tree named ‘Andy Spinks’
    Patent number: PP35048
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Norway spruce tree named ‘Andy Spinks’ that is characterized by its new and maturing foliage that is golden-tinted in color with older and shaded foliage blue-green in color, its strong central leader, its very uniform growth habit and shape, and its good growth rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventor: Keith D. Westervelt
  • plant named ‘Funky Fuchsia’
    Patent number: PP35055
    Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Funky Fuchsia’ with numerous, large, fully-double, lightly-fragrant flowers producing a rounded full face of solid fuchsia-purple flowers. The flowers are held closely together and cover the top of clump on well-branched sterns having up to 4 flowers per stern beginning in early June and sporadically into fall. The plant is compact with long, thin, bluish-green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Anouk Deluxe 16115’
    Patent number: PP35064
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lavandula plant named ‘Anouk Deluxe 16115’, characterized by its compact, upright and broadly spreading plant habit; freely branching growth habit; freely flowering habit; dark purple-colored flowers and bright purple-colored terminal flower bracts positioned on strong and erect peduncles; long flowering period; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: L. KONING BEHEER B.V.
    Inventor: Lammert Koning
  • Blackberry plant named ‘DrisBlackThirty’
    Patent number: PP35078
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of blackberry plant named ‘DrisBlackThirty’, particularly selected for its plant health, berry size, flavor, and firmness, and spineless canes, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Driscoll's, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin R. Sills, Yunwen Wang, Mark F. Crusha, John Fangary
  • plant named ‘MVNC1823’
    Patent number: PP35088
    Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Coreopsis plant named ‘MVNC1823’ that is characterized by its neat, compact plant habit reaching an average of 50 cm in height and having stems of similar length, its long flowering period from late spring to early autumn in The Netherlands, its inflorescences with ray florets that are yellow in color with red centers, its inflorescences that are large in size, its resistance to powdery mildew, its high tolerance to heat and humidity, and its healthy foliage that maintains its bright green appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MARCO VAN NOORT BREEDING BV
    Inventor: Marco van Noort
  • plant named ‘SIRIUS’
    Patent number: PP35095
    Abstract: A new and distinct Chamelaucium cultivar named ‘SIRIUS’ is disclosed, characterized by abundant, large white flowers and flower buds flushed salmon pink. Petals have a semi-erect attitude. Flower production begins in winter. The new variety is a Chamelaucium, normally producing cut flower stems, or as a garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventor: Nitzan Nir
  • plant named ‘MI02648’
    Patent number: PP35098
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘MI02648’, characterized by its upright plant habit; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; strong and flexible flowering stems; compact and semi-erect leaves; freely flowering habit with typically two inflorescences per plant, each inflorescence with numerous flowers; bright yellow-colored flowers with reddish orange-colored stripes that resist fading; and good postproduction longevity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MICROFLOR N.V.
    Inventor: Febe Flore
  • plant named ‘Baldadenapr’
    Patent number: PP35099
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘Baldadenapr’, characterized by its double-type, yellow-orange colored inflorescences, dark green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, upright growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventors: Jeroen Gitzels, Jolanda Krassenburg
  • plant named ‘Baldaora’
    Patent number: PP35100
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘Baldaora’, characterized by its double-type, orange-colored inflorescences, dark green-colored foliage, and vigorous, upright-mounded growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Jeroen Gitzels
  • plant named ‘CORSPAVAR2’
    Patent number: PP35104
    Abstract: ‘CORSPAVAR2’ is a new and distinctive Spathiphyllum plant which is characterized by a compact growth habit, an abundance of narrow-elliptic foliage with moderately undulated leaf margins, dark green and glossy foliage that is irregularly flecked with light greyed-green in an irregularly pinnate pattern, white spathes which become progressively suffused with yellow-green as they age which creates a variegation pattern similar to that of the foliage, and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventor: Daniel Cornelis
  • plant named ‘PEHY0076’
    Patent number: PP35114
    Abstract: A new Petunia plant named ‘PEHY0076’ particularly distinguished by its small sized, red-purple with white flowers, medium to late flowering and a mounding plant habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Theodorus Cornelis Maria Van Kleinwee
  • plant named ‘MANZ0023’
    Patent number: PP35122
    Abstract: A new Mandevilla plant named ‘MANZ0023’, particularly distinguished by its large red nonfading flowers, glossy and smooth dark green foliage, bushy plant habit with a tendency to produce vines under low light growing conditions and with excellent branching and flower production and fast flowering response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Wendy R. Bergman
  • plant named ‘White Treasure Wind’
    Patent number: PP35130
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘White Treasure Wind’, characterized by its semi-upright and uniformly mounded plant habit appropriate for container production; freely branching habit, dense and bushy appearance; glossy dark green-colored leaves; uniform, freely and early flowering habit; single white-colored flowers with dark red-colored centers; good postproduction and garden performance; and tolerance to Bacterial Leaf Spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ARIS HORTICULTURE, INC.
    Inventor: Cornelis P. Vandenberg
  • plant named ‘PEQZ0088’
    Patent number: PP35149
    Abstract: A new Pelargonium plant named ‘PEQZ0088’ particularly distinguished by vibrant dark red colored inflorescences with semi-double florets, held above dark green foliage with slight zoning on a vigorous upright plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Ronald Christiaan Snijder