ZEPHYR COVE, Nev., Dec. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- VirnetX™
Holding Corporation (NYSE MKT: VHC), an Internet security software
and technology company, today announced that the United States
Patent and Trademark Office granted a new patent for VirnetX's
network protocol for enabling secure communications using secure
domain names.
VirnetX's Secure Domain Name functionality is used to enable
various types of communications that use encryption to protect
data, such as encrypted communication channels or links, secure
communication links and virtual private network communication
links. This functionality allows various collaboration applications
including audio/video, telephony and messaging applications to
communicate seamlessly and securely over the Internet. Customers
can obtain a license from VirnetX to use this functionality in
their current or new applications. VirnetX has built Gabriel
Secure Collaboration Suite, a set of applications that run on top
of its Gabriel Secure Communications Platform for home and small
business networks.
"This new patent reaffirms the uniqueness and exclusivity of our
secure domain name technology for secure encrypted communications,"
said Kendall Larsen, VirnetX CEO and
President. "As Internet of Things begins to revolutionize the
way we think about machines around us as "connected devices" and
communications are enabled between machines talking to other
machines, buildings talking to sensors, sensors talking to smart
grid, smartphones talking to cars, and people talking to all of the
above, we believe the use of our secure domain names to establish
secure encrypted communications automatically will emerge as the
superior mechanism to perform this seamlessly."
Officially granted on December 2,
2014, U.S.: Patent no. 8,904,516, System And Method
Employing An Agile Network Protocol For Secure Communications Using
Secure Domain Names, is the fourteenth patent granted to VirnetX in
2014 and was awarded to three of the current members of VirnetX's
R&D team, Dr. Victor Larsen, Dr.
Robert Dunham Short, III and
Michael Williamson. Since 2006,
VirnetX has been granted 85 patents worldwide related to Internet
security. The full-text of the patent can be found here.
About VirnetX
VirnetX Holding Corporation is an Internet security software and
technology company with patented technology for secure
communications including 4G LTE security. The Company's
software and technology solutions, including its secure domain name
registry and GABRIEL Connection Technology™, are designed to
facilitate secure communications and to create a secure environment
for real-time communication applications such as instant messaging,
VoIP, smartphones, eReaders and video conferencing. The
Company's patent portfolio includes over 110 U.S. and international
patents with over 100 pending applications. For more
information, please visit www.virnetx.com.
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patent portfolio and generate licensing fees and revenues; (3) the
ability of the Company to be successful in entering into licensing
relationships with its targeted customers on commercially
acceptable terms; (4) potential challenges to the validity of the
Company's patents underlying its licensing opportunities; (5) the
ability of the Company to achieve widespread customer adoption of
the Company's GABRIEL Communication Technology™ and its secure
domain name registry; (6) the level of adoption of the 3GPP Series
33 security specifications; (7) whether or not the Company's
patents or patent applications may be determined to be or become
essential to any standards or specifications in the 3GPP LTE, SAE
project or otherwise; (8) the extent to which specifications
relating to any of the Company's patents or patent
applications may be adopted as a final standard, if at
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Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on
November 10, 2014. Many of the
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Contact:
Greg Wood
VirnetX Holding Corporation
775.548.1785
greg_wood@virnetx.com
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