US Plant Patent PP35758
Tift TC458
Centipedegrass named ‘Tift TC458’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends March 24, 2043.
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
- PP35758
- Filed
- March 24, 2023
- Granted
- April 16, 2024
- Expires
- March 24, 2043
- Assignee
- UNIV GEORGIA
- Inventor
- HANNA WAYNE W; SCHWARTZ BRIAN; KHANAL SAMEER; ELSNER J EARL
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Centipedegrass named ‘Tift TC458’ is provided. The new and distinct variety has excellent turf quality, increased seed head production, and increased nematode resistance as compared to similar commercial centipedegrass. The sexually and asexually reproduced diploid variety is reliably propagated both vegetatively and by seed.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of the centipedegrass plant named ‘Tift TC458’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.
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