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US Plant Patent PP16206

Visinfred

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Visinfred’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 12, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 9, 2024. This patent earned 94 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16206, the photograph of Visinfred printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16206, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP16206
Filed
September 9, 2004
Granted
January 24, 2006
Expires
December 12, 2024
Assignee
VISIO PLANT
Inventor
KIENTZLER LUDWIG

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Visinfred’, characterized by its rounded and upright plant form; freely branching growth habit; dark green-colored foliage; freely flowering habit with flowers held above and beyond the foliage; and large red-colored flowers.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Visinfred’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16206 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.