US Plant Patent PP11781
MS-Supreme
Bermudagrass plant named ‘MS-Supreme’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 6, 2018. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11781
- Filed
- April 6, 1998
- Granted
- February 20, 2001
- Expires
- April 6, 2018
- Assignee
- UNIV MISSISSIPPI
- Inventor
- KRANS JEFFREY V; PHILLEY HERBERT W
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of bermudagrass, designated experiment number MSB40 and named "MS-Supreme' and is characterized by its natural dark green color (7.5 GY 5/6, Munsell(C) Color Charts) and enhanced dark green color (7.5 GY 4/6, Munsell(C) Color Charts) during overcast weather and the fall season, ultra-dwarf leaf blade length (6 mm) and width (0.5 mm), highly prostrate growth habit, and affords excellent turfgrass putting green quality under putting green culture.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is: 1. A new and distinct variety of bermudagrass plant, substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11781 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.