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).
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Patent number: PP35181Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Lilac Crush’ comprising flattened, rounded, compact, mound habit of multiple, well-branched, mostly upright stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant for at least eight weeks beginning mid-summer. Flowers have large petals of deep-lilac with a small, dark-red, shiny eye surrounded by a narrow rose-red zone and a large column displaying light yellow-colored pollen nearly the entire length. The foliage is primarily tri-lobed with medium to dark-green color.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35191Abstract: The new hybrid X Heucherella plant named ‘Copper King’ with slightly-cupped leaves at the petiole and flat margins, deeply incised into five to seven main lobes with each individual lobes irregularly incised. Foliage color starts in the spring as bright orange with reddish-copper in surrounding the veins, and the edges develop a yellowish-chartreuse and matures in the late fall to a medium-green with a mahogany pattern around the veins. ‘Copper King’ is vigorous and produces many airy panicles with numerous sterile creamy-white flowers in densely branched panicles 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35192Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of Bee Balm Monarda plant named ‘Lavender Taffeta’ has medium-height, winter hardy, dense, vigorous clumping habit, dark green glossy foliage that exhibits strong resistance to powdery mildew, and numerous large flower heads of dark lavender-purple-colored flowers creating excellent flower coverage. The lower petals have darker strong purplish-red spots, and each flower head is subtended by burgundy-colored bracts. The new plant is attractive and useful in the garden landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a container plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35221Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Mouseketeer’ producing a small-sized upright mound of small leaves that are nearly rounded, lightly cupped, with rounded bases and rounded apices. The leaves are stiff, and smooth, with flat margins and heavy substance. Leaf color is dark green to slightly bluish-green on the wide margins and light yellow in the center with irregular small green flecks and varying shades of light green between the margin and center. The petioles are broad and display the green margin and light yellow center colors. ‘Mouseketeer’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35222Abstract: A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox plant named ‘Sunset Coral’ 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 coral-pink with a tinge of orange, with the orange coloration more intense in cooler conditions. 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: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35232Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Lungwort plant named Pulmonaria ‘Pink-a-Blue’ is characterized by prominent silver spotting on deep green foliage and large campanulate flowers open deep-pink and mature to medium blue on numerous inflorescences. The new plants show excellent vigor and good mildew resistance.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35272Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Butter Pecan’ with inflorescences on branched stems producing single whorls of creamy-yellow ray florets and a large center pompon of disk florets. The disk florets are very long with notched apices and frequently with extra side lobes giving a fuller pompon effect. The new plant flowers from mid-summer to late summer, and is suitable as a potted plant, for the landscape, and for cut flower arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35287Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of Bee Balm plant Monarda named ‘Pink Chenille’ has medium-height, dense, branching stems, dark green glossy foliage with strong resistance to powdery mildew, numerous large flower heads of fluorescent-pink-colored flowers creating excellent flower coverage. Flower heads are subtended by wine-colored bracts. The new plant is attractive and useful in the garden landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a container plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35333Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Allium ornamental onion plant named ‘Bubble Bath’ is a large upright habit, with glaucous, stiff, broad, strap-like, upright, flattened, gray-green foliage with slight longitudinal twisting, and numerous, tightly-clustered, light lavender flowers forming a large, globose, upright umbels. The new plant is useful for containers, landscaping and cut flowers.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35382Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Permanent Wave’ is characterized by a compact mounded habit of ovate to deltoid-ovate leaves with dense, overlapping, intensely-glaucous, light-gray color. The new plant has large marginal teeth ending in a small, sharp, firm tooth and a large firm sharp apical mucro. The foliage frequently has depression images of the teeth left in the tops and bottoms of the leaves. The new plant has a moderate growth rate. 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35404Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Raspberry Beret’ of heavily branched plants, compact habit, producing fragrant inflorescences with nearly horizontal raspberry-pink ray florets and very large disk florets of deep raspberry-pink forming a center pompon. The new plant flowers from mid-summer to late summer, and is suitable as a potted plant, for the landscape, and for cut flower arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35429Abstract: The new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant named ‘Ball Gown’ with large-sized, ruffled, chartreuse foliage. The new plant has creamy white flowers on dense panicles that repeat through the growing season. The new plant is vigorous, and produces dense clumps and is useful in the landscape or in containers.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35438Abstract: The new and distinct plant of Buddleia ‘Pink Cascade II’ is a rounded-mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with very long, broad, slightly pendulous flowering thyrse producing a waterfall effect over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly fragrant flowers of pinkish petals that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides. No seed has been observed on this plant and it is presumed to be sterile. The new plant is valuable for landscaping en masse, as an accent or as a potted specimen.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35455Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Angel Eyes’ comprising a rounded mound habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers starting earlier than most cultivars, opening from the bottom to the top of the mound beginning in late July and continuing for at least twelve weeks. Flowers have overlapping petals of near white with shiny deep-red eye and raspberry-red veins projecting into the middle of the petals. The foliage is primarily three-lobed and dark-green-colored. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen or in mass.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35456Abstract: The new Shasta daisy plant, Leucanthemum ‘Seventh Heaven’, is a sturdy plant with dark-green serrated foliage and stiff stems. The numerous, large, freely-flowering inflorescences producing two to three rows of overlapping horizontal ray florets beginning light-yellow and developing to creamy-yellow-colored. The center disk florets are golden yellow. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a long-flowering border, in mass, as accent plants and containerized for patio or indoor use, or as a cut flower.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35461Abstract: The new and distinct hybrid of Astilbe plant named ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ has broadly-mounded habit producing a dense bushy appearance of rich, dark chocolate-purplish, triternate foliage that is topped with tall, upright, stiff dark-mahogany-color panicles of numerous, densely-clustered, deep mauve-colored flower buds opening to densely-clustered rosy-purple flowers on heavily-branched stems. The new plant is vigorous, shows heat and sun tolerance, and is useful in the landscape, in containers, or as a cut flower.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35462Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Rainbow Sherbet’ of heavily branched plants, strong-stemmed, producing fragrant inflorescences with wide ray florets initially of orange-sherbet coloring transitioning to raspberry sherbet coloring and drooping and maturing to a light pinkish color. The center disk florets of raspberry-pink produce a large center pompon. The new plant has dark-green ovate foliage, produces flowers from mid-summer to late summer, and is suitable as a potted plant, for the landscape, and for cut flower arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35473Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Origanum ‘Gilt Trip’, has dense, rounded, habit with heavily-branched spreading stems. The foliage is ovate, and chartreuse to light-yellow and resists burning when planted in full sun. Flowering begins in early summer and continues to early fall or frost with light lavender petal colors with persistent mauve calyces. The new plant is attractive and useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, or in containers.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35524Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘My Fair Lady’ producing medium-sized broadly horizontal mounds of basal, ovate to broadly ovate leaves with acute apices, cordate bases and flat margins. The leaves are variegated having dark green margins and creamy-yellow centers with intermediate color separation between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The campanulate flowers beginning in mid-July are very pale lavender with white edges appearing on glaucous, light-green scapes. ‘My Fair Lady’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP35527Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Niagara Falls’ characterized by a medium to large mound of broadly lanceolate, fleshy, longitudinally-folded, dark green foliage having a broad yellowish-chartreuse margin and chartreuse intermediate zone. The leaves cascade or arch downward toward the tips with maturity. Foliage displays spots of purplish-red color in high ultraviolet exposure mainly concentrated near the leaf base. Leaves are deeply scalloped with medium-sized teeth. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
