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).

  • Veronica plant named 'Wizard of Ahhs'
    Publication number: 20190357399
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental spike speedwell plant, Veronica ‘Wizard of Ahhs’, with tight compact habit and stiff, freely-branched, early flowering with upright spikes producing large violet-blue flowers and glossy, clean, deep-green foliage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • Kniphofia Plant Named 'Jackpot'
    Publication number: 20190327876
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Red Hot Poker plant named Kniphofia ‘Jackpot’ with long, gracefully-arching, strap-like, keeled, glaucous, gray-green foliage and numerous scapes beginning in early summer and repeating though early fall. Habit is densely growing, winter-hardy, tolerant of heat, deer and rabbits. Numerous scapes of vivid reddish-orange flowers on tall scapes beginning in early summer and repeating into early October. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or as a long-lasting cut flower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • X Mangave plant named `Whale Tale'
    Publication number: 20190281745
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Whale Tale’ characterized by glaucous, silver-grey, slightly-arching, lanceolate foliage with small semi-flexible marginal teeth on deeply-scalloped margins and apical spines. Leaves develop greyed-purple spotting with strong ultraviolet light. The habit is low, wide and slightly arching. Plants are useful for landscaping as specimens or en masse or as container plants in the landscape or in the home.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • X mangave plant named 'Mayan Queen'
    Publication number: 20190281746
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Mayan Queen’ characterized by silver-grey, slightly-arching, slightly-wavy, lanceolate foliage with distinctly small firm spines on deeply-scalloped margins. Leaves develop greyed purple markings with strong ultraviolet light with reddish purple base. Plants are useful for landscaping as specimens or en masse or as container plants in the landscape or in the home.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • X Mangave plant named 'FRECKLES AND SPECKLES'
    Publication number: 20190274239
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Freckles and Speckles’ characterized by compact habit and lanceolate foliage with medium green color and with high ultra violet light exposure developing grey-purple speckling and blushing in the distal portions. The yellowish flowers with burnt orange blushing on tall stiff scapes are suitable as a potted plant or for the garden and loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds or for use as a houseplant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • plant named ‘Grand Cascade’
    Patent number: PP30868
    Abstract: The new and distinct plant of Buddleia ‘Grand Cascade’ is a rounded-mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with very long, slightly drooping, flowering thyrse producing a cascading effect over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant flowers of strong purple petals that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides. The new plant is valuable for landscaping en masse, as an accent or as a potted specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • plant named ‘Age of Gold’
    Patent number: PP30902
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Age of Gold’ with large, round-mounded habit with foliage of heavy substance, chartreuse to golden color, cordate-shaped with acute to apiculate apices. Flowers are soft pale lavender to near white with buds of light to medium lavender and persistent foliar bracts nearly matching coloration of flower buds and then becoming chartreuse as seeds mature. Scapes are outwardly holding flowers just above foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • X Mangave plant named ‘Freckles and Speckles’
    Patent number: PP30904
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Freckles and Speckles’ characterized by compact habit and lanceolate foliage with medium green color and with high ultra violet light exposure developing grey-purple speckling and blushing in the distal portions. The yellowish flowers with burnt orange blushing on tall stiff stapes are suitable as a potted plant or for the garden and loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds or for use as a houseplant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Red Hot Vanilla’
    Patent number: PP30909
    Abstract: The new and distinct threadleaf coreopsis plant, Coreopsis verticillata plant named ‘Red Hot Vanilla’, dense mounded habit, with narrowly-linear or deeply-dissected, typically 3-lobed foliage of bright-green, heavily-branched, producing numerous inflorescences with creamy ray ligules with dark red central eye over a prolonged flowering season from early summer until frost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Kitten Around’
    Patent number: PP30940
    Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Nepeta ‘Kitten Around’, has rounded, very short and compact habit with mostly upright stems. The foliage is small, serrate and fragrant. Flowers are a periwinkle blue with persistent rosy-purple calyces. The new plant reblooms heavily if trimmed after initial flowering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • plant named ‘Dark Chocolate’
    Patent number: PP30959
    Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous false indigo named Baptisia ‘Dark Chocolate’ characterized by chocolatey purple flowers on very long spikes maintaining their coloration from bud to anthesis. The new plant has an upright, short, mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with glaucous medium-green tri-foliate foliage and is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Puppy Love’
    Patent number: PP30973
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Fountain Grass, Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Puppy Love’, characterized by vase-shaped habit of medium height and olive-green arching foliage that develops a blush of greyed-purple. Flowering begins in late August with a greyed-purple effective color period of about ten weeks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Wizard of Ahhs’
    Patent number: PP31044
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental spike speedwell plant, Veronica ‘Wizard of Ahhs’, with tight compact habit and stiff, freely-branched, early flowering with upright spikes producing large violet-blue flowers and glossy, clean, deep-green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • X plant named ‘Whale Tale’
    Patent number: PP31060
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Whale Tale’ characterized by glaucous, silver-grey, slightly-arching, lanceolate foliage with small semi-flexible marginal teeth on deeply-scalloped margins and apical spines. Leaves develop greyed-purple spotting with strong ultraviolet light. The habit is low, wide and slightly arching. Plants are useful for landscaping as specimens or en masse or as container plants in the landscape or in the home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • X plant named ‘Catching Fire’
    Patent number: PP31065
    Abstract: The new hybrid X Heucherella plant named ‘Catching Fire’ with rugose, downwardly-cupped, palmately-lobed foliage changing from vibrant yellow with cherry-red flame surrounding the veins in the spring to lime-green with mahogany pattern around veins. ‘Catching Fire’ is vigorous and produces many airy panicles with numerous sterile creamy-white flowers beginning late spring and exhibits good heat and humidity tolerance. The plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen color, en masse, or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • plant named ‘Sweetly’
    Patent number: PP31089
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Japanese Anemone plant named Anemone ‘Sweetly’ with medium spreading habit, dense vertical peduncle of numerous semi-double flowers with deep rose-pink petals, beginning late summer and continuing into early fall, set just above the dark green, tri-foliate leaves with irregularly serrated to biserrated margins. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Lavender Bubbles’
    Patent number: PP31126
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental onion plant named Allium ‘Lavender Bubbles’ compact habit, glaucous, upright, stiff, strap-like, flattened, gray-green foliage with slight longitudinal twisting and numerous, tightly-clustered, dark dusty-purple flowers forming in globose umbels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Garden Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Cat's Pajamas’
    Patent number: PP31127
    Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Nepeta ‘Cat's Pajamas’, has rounded, short and compact habit with mostly upright to outwardly stems. The foliage is cordate, serrate to crenate. Flowers are a strong violet color with moderate-purple, persistent calyces beginning as much as two weeks prior to other Catmint. The new plant is useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, or in containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • x plant named ‘Snow Leopard’
    Patent number: PP31137
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Snow Leopard’ characterized by long arching succulent foliage with deep-green centers and variegated yellowish-cream to creamy-white margins and frosty green region between the margin and center. The leaves develop reddish to greyed-purple spotting and tinting under high ultraviolet light. Growth rate is moderate to rapid and the new plant has good natural pup production. The green flowers on tall stiff scapes are loaded with nectar are highly attractive to hummingbirds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Royal Flush’
    Patent number: PP31138
    Abstract: A new and unique Agave plant named ‘Royal Flush’ characterized by rigid narrow foliage that points upwardly and curves slightly inwardly toward apex. Leaves have slightly curly filifers in place of marginal teeth. Leaves are variegated with creamy yellow margins, sharply contrasting deep-green leaf centers and a faint minty green between the margin and center. The plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or also in a container in the home or landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen