Patents by Inventor Hans Hansen

Hans 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).

  • X mangave plant named 'FOXY LADY'
    Publication number: 20210161048
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Foxy Lady’ characterized by a compact mound of short, broad, fleshy, heavily-glaucous leaves with centers of silvery-colored with lavender undertones, developing irregular smoky-purple spots and stripes in high ultraviolet light exposure. The variegated creamy-white margin develops spots of purplish-pink and contrasts with the orangish brown sharp tip of the teeth and short, sharp, terminal spines. ‘Foxy Lady’ is suitable for the garden landscape or as a potted plant around the garden or in the home.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Athyrium plant named 'Crested Surf'
    Publication number: 20210161055
    Abstract: A new and unique crested Japanese fern Athyrium plant named ‘Crested Surf’ characterized by stiff upright habit and compound foliage with alternate deep-green bipinnately with light-green color near the center and wine-colored petioles and midribs. Pinnae and pinnules have compound crested apices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • Hibiscus Plant Named 'Evening Rose'
    Publication number: 20210144897
    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: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • plant named ‘Dark Roast’
    Patent number: PP32954
    Abstract: The new and distinct crape myrtle plant named Lagerstroemia ‘Dark Roast’ has a dense, short, compact, broadly-rounded habit, is ground hardy to at least USDA zone 6, has semi-glossy, mahogany-colored foliage becoming deep green at flowering time. The flowers arise from shiny, deep-red buds, are lightly fragrant, covering the shrub with their bright fuchsia-pink color. The new plant resists leaf spot and powdery mildew and is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Lava Java’
    Patent number: PP32973
    Abstract: The new and distinct crape myrtle plant named Lagerstroemia ‘Lava Java’ has a dense, broadly-spreading, mounded habit, is ground hardy to at least USDA zone 6, has glossy, dark-green foliage with faint marginal wine blush that emerge deep mahogany-colored. The flowers cover the shrub with magenta-rose from shiny reddish buds. The new plant resists leaf spot and powdery mildew and is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • hybrid plant named ‘Firecracker’
    Patent number: PP32975
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of intergeneric Digitalis hybrid plant named ‘Firecracker’ is characterized by sturdy, upright and dense habit with dark-green, serrate foliage and densely-branched flower stems with flowers that are open-faced, campanulate, self-cleaning, vivid yellowish-orange with reddish-purple undertones over a long period. The flowers produce an abundance of nectar and are attractive to hummingbirds in the landscape. The new plant is useful in the garden landscape, as a container plant or as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Firefly Diamond’
    Patent number: PP32986
    Abstract: A new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Firefly Diamond’, with narrow, green, fern-like foliage; tall, stiff, heavily branched stems with white ray florets in large cymes, beginning in late June and continuing for about seven weeks and repeating if deadheaded. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Crater Lake’
    Patent number: PP32990
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Crater Lake’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright green, linear to awl-shaped leaves. Flowering begins in late-April and continuing for up to six weeks, in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals of newly opened flowers are cool indigo-purple with 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. 1. Vigorous plants of dense, slowly-spreading habit, spreading by rooting stems, producing short, clean, glabrous, bright-green, narrow leaves; 2. Multiple heavily-branched stems produce branched panicles; 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Majestic Magenta’
    Patent number: PP33006
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox plant named ‘Majestic Magenta’ characterized by vigorous, dense, low spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright green, linear to awl-shaped leaves. Flowering begins in late-April and continuing for up to four weeks, in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals have a small notch and the tips and newly opened flowers and mature flowers remain a rich dark-pink color. 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: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • X plant named ‘Foxy Lady’
    Patent number: PP33032
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Foxy Lady’ characterized by a compact mound of short, broad, fleshy, heavily-glaucous leaves with centers of silvery-colored with lavender undertones, developing irregular smoky-purple spots and stripes in high ultraviolet light exposure. The variegated creamy-white margin develops spots of purplish-pink and contrasts with the orangish brown sharp tip of the teeth and short, sharp, terminal spines. ‘Foxy Lady’ is suitable for the garden landscape or as a potted plant around the garden or in the home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Crested Surf’
    Patent number: PP33057
    Abstract: A new and unique crested Japanese fern Athyrium plant named ‘Crested Surf’ characterized by stiff upright habit and compound foliage with alternate deep-green bipinnately with light-green color near the center and wine-colored petioles and midribs. Pinnae and pinnules have compound crested apices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Spot On’
    Patent number: PP33063
    Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Lungwort plant named Pulmonaria ‘Spot On’ characterized by silver spotting on medium green foliage, purplish-pink to salmon-pink flower buds on dense, upright, highly branched stems, that open into purplish-blue campanulate flowers in dense panicles. The new plant has silver spotting on the upper side of both basal and cauline. The plant also show excellent vigor and the foliage has good mildew resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Bridal Falls’
    Patent number: PP33080
    Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Bridal Falls’ characterized by a medium mound of broad, fleshy, longitudinally folded, medium green foliage having a broad creamy-white margin and minty-green intermediate zone. The leaves cascade or arch downward toward the apices. Foliage displays faint spots that in low ultraviolet light are dark green in the leaf centers or purplish-pink in the margins. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Leading Lady Orchid’
    Patent number: PP33132
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Leading Lady Orchid’ with slightly-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage, flower heads of magenta-pink flowers with lower petals accented by dark fuchsia spotting, each globular head subtended by wine-colored bracts. Flowering in dense verticils beginning about two weeks earlier than typical Monarda didyma cultivars. Flowers of side branches stretching above initial globular heads extends the fresh appearance over along period. The plant habit is short, compact and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • X plant named ‘Fiercely Fabulous’
    Patent number: PP33166
    Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Fiercely Fabulous’ characterized by compact habit of lanceolate foliage with medium grayish-green color and grayed-purplish spots and burgundy air-brushing with strong ultraviolet light exposure. The new plant has numerous chartreuse flowers with burgundy blushing on tall, stiff, highly-branched scapes. 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: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘French Vanilla’
    Patent number: PP33181
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘French Vanilla’ comprising a compact, upright, spreading, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant from late July to early September. Flowers have overlapping, moderately-rippled petals opening creamy-yellow with slightly darker veins and dark red shiny eye with leading margin folded underneath giving flowers extra strength and resistance to wind damage. The flower buds open at the apex one to two days prior to the flower opening up flat, and the petals in the bud stage are greenish-yellow. The foliage is typically three-lobed, and rich olive-green with greyed-purple coloration when young.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Sabertooth Tiger’
    Patent number: PP33192
    Abstract: A new and unique Agave plant named ‘Sabertooth Tiger’ characterized by dense, low, mounded plant habit of short, obovate, variegated leaves having wide creamy-white centers with green margins. The leaves have firm, sharp large-sized marginal teeth positioned on the distal apical region and show occasional imprints from marginal spines of leaves above or below. The marginal teeth curve upwardly and toward shoot apex. The apical spine is long, firm and sharp. 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: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Blue Bubbly’
    Patent number: PP33234
    Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous false indigo plant named Baptisia ‘Blue Bubbly’ characterized by lavender-blue colored on long spikes beginning in mid-June in Michigan and continuing for two to three weeks. The new plant has a narrow, tall, upright, vase-shaped, 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: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 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 ‘Time in a Bottle’
    Patent number: PP33267
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Time in a Bottle’ of arching, lanceolate, chartreuse leaves having a lustrous underside and moderately wavy margins. The flowers are dark purple and tightly congested on upright to slightly-outwardly dark-reddish scapes above the foliage and typically do not open. ‘Time in a Bottle’ has excellent, small, compact, mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, in containers, as a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen