UPDATE: VirnetX Reports Four New US PTO Patents

VirnetX™ Holding Corporation

, an Internet security software and technology company, announced today that it has been granted four new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. Patent No. 8,554,899, Agile Network Protocol for Secure Communications Using Secure Domain Names; U.S. Patent No. 8,560,705, System and Method Employing an Agile Network Protocol for Secure Communications Using Secure Domain Names; U.S. Patent No. 8,571,025, Third Party VPN Certification; and U.S. Patent No. 8,572,247, Agile Network Protocol for Secure Communications Using Secure Domain Names. Ten new mobile security patents have been granted to VirnetX in 2013. Since 2006, VirnetX has been granted 75 (24 U.S., 51 International) new patents related to Internet security. Patent development is attributed to the VirnetX research and development team, headed by VirnetX Chief Technical Officer and Chief Scientist, Dr. Robert Dunham Short III, which includes the scientists who created the original inventions that are the basis of VirnetX's patent portfolio.