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).

  • Tetrahydropyrazolopyrimidine compounds
    Patent number: 11130758
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to tetrahydropyrazolopyrimidine compounds that act as antagonists or inhibitors for Toll-like receptors 7 and/or 8, and their use in pharmaceutical compositions effective for treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Roch Boivin, Eric Carlson, Atsushi Endo, Hans Hansen, Lynn D. Hawkins, Sally Ishizaka, Matthew Mackey, Sridhar Narayan, Takashi Satoh, Shawn Schiller
  • AGAPANTHUS PLANT NAMED 'LITTLE GALAXY
    Publication number: 20210219479
    Abstract: A new and distinct Agapanthus plant named ‘Little Galaxy’ characterized by winter-hardy, very compact habit with clean, lanceolate, medium-green foliage that goes dormant in the Michigan winter; single medium blue flowers on numerous, short stems producing rounded globes of flowering beginning about mid-July and with repeating new scapes into mid-September for about eight weeks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • plant named ‘Voices in the Wind’
    Patent number: PP33265
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Voices in the Wind’ of medium-sized, arching, long, lanceolate, bluish-green leaves having wavy creamy-yellow margins with numerous feathering intermediate colors and a narrowly acute curling apex. The flowers are pale lavender with darker lavender veins appearing in mid-July. Prior to flower bud opening, the floral bracts produce a broad, short, light lavender, water-lily effect of compact lanceolate bracts. ‘Voices in the Wind’ is attractive and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Hope Springs Eternal’
    Patent number: PP33266
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ with medium, rounded-mound habit of heavy-substance, stiff, variegated foliage. Leaves are glaucous, broadly ovate with undulate margins, creamy-white margins, bluish-green centers and intermediate colors between. Flowers have pale purple margins with slightly darker veins, held above foliage beginning in early July. The new plant is attractive for landscaping in the garden as a specimen, in mass and as a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Pink Sparkles’
    Patent number: PP33276
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Pink Sparkles’ characterized by moderately-vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright-green, shiny, linear leaves. Flowering begins in mid-spring and continuing for up to six weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are soft baby-pink with darker eye marks and a center than lightens with maturity. The petals have a medium deep 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Party Streamers’
    Patent number: PP33277
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Party Streamers’ with medium, rounded-mound habit of arching chartreuse foliage. Leaves are long and narrow with wavy margins. Flowering begins in late July through late August with tepals opening wide to show strong violet coloration with darker veins. Seed pods take on purplish-red coloration when developing in high light conditions. The new plant is attractive for landscaping in the garden as a specimen, in mass and as a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Paint the Town Red’
    Patent number: PP33293
    Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Paint the Town Red’ with numerous, single, lightly-spicy fragrant flowers producing a full rounded face. Each flower has five overlapping petals that are deep magenta-red colored without darker red bars in the center. Petals have moderately coarse dentate apices. Flowering season is strong for four weeks beginning in late spring and continues to mid-fall. The habit is compact and dense with glaucous blue-green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Opalescence’
    Patent number: PP33295
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox named ‘Opalescence’ 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 light pink with darker pink eye. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. 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: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Trendsetter’
    Patent number: PP33296
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Trendsetter’ of medium-sized, arching, long, ovate, medium-green leaves having wavy, yellow, jagged margins with numerous feathering intermediate colors and a narrowly acute curling apex. The flowers are pale lavender beginning in mid-June. ‘Trendsetter’ is attractive and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Tears in Heaven’
    Patent number: PP33297
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Tears in Heaven’ with an arching, rounded-mound habit of dense, cordate foliage of heavy glaucous bluish-colored above and whitish-blue below, retaining the glaucous covering until the end of summer. Long lanceolate leaves with sharply pointed apices and tapered base have intensely undulate margins and the lateral edges are folded upwardly veins with moderate dimpling between the veins and sinuate margins. The plant has pale lavender outer tepals with the tepals inside distinctly striped in the middle of the tepals with a darker lavender and white on the margins. The new plant is attractive and useful in landscaping as a specimen, in mass, or as a containerized plant by itself or in combination with other plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Spinderella’
    Patent number: PP33309
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Spinderella’ comprising a compact, dense, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant from late July to frost. Flowers have petals that are broadly-overlapping, with deeply impressed veins of white radiating through the center that intensifies to a medium pink on the leading edge. The foliage is simple and ovate, with a crenulate margin and deep-green with greyed-purple blotches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Sage Advice’
    Patent number: PP33310
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy, Russian Sage plant, Perovskia ‘Sage Advice’ with short, 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. Foliage is silvery-green, dissected, fragrant and is retained well throughout the growing season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Rose Quartz’
    Patent number: PP33315
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Rose Quartz’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright-green, shiny, linear leaves. Small flowers begin in mid-spring and continuing for up to six weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are rose-pink with a lighter center and a moderate 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Hosta plant named ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’
    Patent number: PP33317
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Wind beneath My Wings’ with large rounded-mound habit of dense, lanceolate foliage of heavy glaucous bluish-colored above and whitish-blue below, retaining the glaucous covering until the end of summer. Long lanceolate leaves with sharply pointed apices and cordate base have undulate margins and the slightly impressed veins with moderate dimpling between the veins and sinuate margins. The plant has flowers in August with pale lavender outer tepals with the tepals inside distinctly striped in the middle of the tepals with a darker lavender and white on the margins. The new plant is attractive and useful in landscaping as a specimen, in mass, or as a containerized plant by itself or in combination with other plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Drop-dead Gorgeous’
    Patent number: PP33318
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Drop-dead Gorgeous’ of very large, arching, long, ovate, green leaves having wavy yellow margins. The flowers are white with light lavender veins and blushing. Prior to flower bud opening, the floral bracts produce a broad, short, light lavender, water-lily effect of compact lanceolate bracts. ‘Drop-dead Gorgeous’ has excellent very large mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Evening Rose’
    Patent number: PP33366
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Evening Rose’ comprising an upright, rounded, compact, mound habit of multiple, well-branched, mostly upright basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant for at least six weeks beginning mid-summer. Flowers have petals vivid purplish-red with deep red veins radiating to the margin and moderate red shiny eye surrounded by deep dark-red band set off with a deep red and white striped column displaying yellow-colored pollen. The foliage is mainly tri-lobed with burgundy color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Drops of Jupiter’
    Patent number: PP33367
    Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Origanum ‘Drops of Jupiter’, has dense, rounded, habit with mostly upright to slightly outwardly stems. The foliage is ovate, and chartreuse-yellow and resists burning when planted in full sun. Flowering begins in early summer and continues to early fall or frost with mauve-pink petal colors with persistent purple calyces. The new plant is attractive and useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, or in containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Baby Doll White’
    Patent number: PP33487
    Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of garden Phlox named Phlox ‘Baby Doll White’ multiple-branched, multi-stemmed, short, dense, upright, slowly-spreading habit with clean, glossy, medium-green, lanceolate leaves with exceptiond powdery mildew resistance. Foliage is thick with stiff sterns. Flowers are white initially with pale-lavender blush and small, pale-lavender throat and pale-purple corolla tube produced on branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning early June for about four weeks, about two weeks prior to typical Phlox paniculata cultivars known to the inventor, and repeating for about six weeks. ‘Baby Doll White’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • x plant named ‘Wavecrest’
    Patent number: PP33489
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Wavecrest’ characterized by a compact mound of lanceolate, variegated, coarsely sinuate, folded to concaved foliage. The foliage center is bluish-green and the marginal variegation is variable between yellowish and light chartreuse with a darker chartreuse intermediate zone. Marginal and apical spines are soft and flexible. Leaves develop small, irregular, greyed-purple spots with strong ultra violet light. The new plants is suitable for the garden landscape or as a potted plant in the garden or around the home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Blackberry Merlot’
    Patent number: PP33498
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Blackberry Merlot’ comprising a compact, upright, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers beginning in late July for at least eight weeks. Flowers have overlapping, moderately-rippled petals of deep velvety red with dark reddish shiny eye, with the leading margin occasionally folded underneath giving flowers extra strength and resistance to wind damage. The flower buds are dark, purplish gray. The foliage is primarily three-lobed, and rich olive-green with mahogany coloration when young.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen