Patents by Inventor James C. Mikkelsen

James C. Mikkelsen 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).

  • Impatiens plant
    Patent number: PP5134
    Abstract: An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Gemini, and characterized by its clear bright pink flower color and contrasting dark green variegated foliage; highly floriferous habit; firm petal texture; relatively large flowers, with distinct deep pink to red throat; continuous flowering and highly stable flower color, with little fading in summer, and by its semi-procumbent and weather resistant habits which make it ideal for baskets and bedding plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant
    Patent number: PP5135
    Abstract: An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Flare and characterized by its compact, superior self-branching habit; bright dark red to a dull red flower color depending on light conditions; variegated to wholly green foliage depending on light conditions; superior floriferousness; excellent keeping qualities for house plant use, and by its adaptability to varying use environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant
    Patent number: PP5153
    Abstract: An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Cosmos and characterized by its intense mauve flower color; long, narrow variegated foliage; self-branching, thin stems and procumbent growth, making the cultivar ideal for hanging baskets; early and continuous flowering, with flower intensity and variegation being most pronounced in high light conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Begonia plant named Encore
    Patent number: PP5158
    Abstract: A begonia named Encore having bright pink double flowers, dark green, firm to crisp glabrous foliage with sharp and distinct serrated edges; above average keeping qualities, and having continuous year round flowering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Kalanchoe plant named Cinnabar
    Patent number: PP5160
    Abstract: A kalanchoe named Cinnabar having deep orange-red florets in a well formed inflorescence carried on a very vigorous stem having close internodes with medium size, nearly round leaves. The self-branching habit is sufficiently compact for 10 cm. pots yet vigorous enough for larger specimens in 15 cm. pots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Begonia plant named Lyric
    Patent number: PP5161
    Abstract: A begonia named Lyric having white double flowers, dark green, firm to crisp glabrous foliage with serrated edges, excellent keeping qualities, and continuous year round flowering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant
    Patent number: PP5184
    Abstract: An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Corona and characterized by its large plant size and vigorous, self-branching growth habit; dark pink to red-purple flower color; excellent keeping qualities of flowers thereby making cultivar excellent for indoor use; relatively large green leaves with mid-rib veination, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Kalanchoe plant named Eternity
    Patent number: PP5253
    Abstract: A kalanchoe cultivar named Eternity particularly characterized by the development of the total salmon red inflorescence without deterioration of the initial flowering of the terminal florets, excellent compact self branching growth with dark green crenate foliage, enhancing the potential of production of kalanchoe hanging baskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Kalanchoe plant named Royalty
    Patent number: PP5254
    Abstract: A kalanchoe plant named Royalty, characterized by its excellent keeping quality, free branching and vigorous growth habits, well clustered, rose-red flowers, high floriferousness, and its adaptability to various pot sizes and to growth regulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Kalanchoe plant named Dignity
    Patent number: PP5255
    Abstract: A kalanchoe plant named Dignity, characterized by its excellent keeping quality, free branching and vigorous growth habits, well clustered, pink flowers, high floriferousness, and its adaptability to various pot sizes and to growth regulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Kalanchoe plant named Fortyniner
    Patent number: PP5256
    Abstract: A hybrid Kalanchoe cultivar named Fortyniner having deep yellow flower color, strong compact growth, floriferous and uniform flowering habit, excellent keeping qualities, and an adaptability with the use of growth regulators to commercial production in 9 to 15 cm. containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Begonia plant named Hilda
    Patent number: PP5532
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of begonia plant named Hilda characterized by its deep red flower color; occasional pistillated flowers; ease of propagation; compact, upright growth habit, and by its floriferousness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Kalanchoe plant named Citation
    Patent number: PP5533
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of kalanchoe plant named Citation characterized by its pink flower color with salmon overtones and white throat, uniform flowering, excellent self-branching, excellent keeping qualities, adaptability to various pot sizes, and by its complimenting the genetically related cultivars Sensation, Dignity and Royalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Begonia plant named Tango
    Patent number: PP5538
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of begonia plant named Tango characterized by its relatively large, full semiball shaped double flowers with ruffled edges, uniform deep peach-pink flower color, slow and compact growth habit, firm foliage, excellent propagation by leaf or stem cuttings, and by its excellent keeping qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Begonia plant named Imke
    Patent number: PP5539
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of begonia plant named Imke characterized by its medium pink flower color, double flower form, tending to nearly single in periods of low light, compact and vigorous growth habit, and florierousness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant named Dawn
    Patent number: PP5775
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant named Dawn, having numerous salmon pink flowers, small leaf size, vigorous, self-branching mounded growth habit making it useful for pot, hanging basket and bedding plant use; and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant named Quasar
    Patent number: PP5780
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant named Quasar, having multiple flowering from leaf axil, vigorous, self-branching growth habit, salmon flower color with excellent keeping quality of flowers, flowering from two (2) leaf whorls at one time making it useful for pot plant use, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant named Pulsar
    Patent number: PP5783
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant named Pulsar, having compact plant size and vigorous self-branching growth habit, distinct cherry-red flowers, multiple flowering from the leaf axils, extremely floriferous nature of plant, good keeping quality of flowers, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant named Zenith
    Patent number: PP5804
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant named Zenith, having deep orange, large flowers, vigorous, self-branching mounded growth habit making it useful for pot and border plant use; relatively large glossy green leaves with a distinct toothed midrib variegation, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen
  • Impatiens plant named Enterprise
    Patent number: PP5868
    Abstract: An impatiens plant named Enterprise, having intense pink flowers, large leaf size with distinct variegation, tolerance to moisture stress, and its vigorous self-branching bush growth habit, which makes it useful for pot and hanging basket use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Mikkelsen