KoolSpan Awarded U.S. Patent

Growing patent portfolio is recognition of KoolSpan innovation.

Bethesda, Md. May 25, 2010 – KoolSpan, Inc., developer of the TrustChip® family of secure connectivity solutions that seamlessly unite mission-critical network devices, today announced it has been awarded its fifth patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, titled ‘Automatic Hardware-Enabled VPN’ (U.S. Patent No. 7,725,933).

TrustChip® technologies deliver fully encrypted network connectivity and mutual authentication within a streamlined device-to-device architecture that protects critical voice and data traffic end to end. TrustChip® technologies also feature distributed security management without limits of scale or network type, and a dedicated and hardened crypto engine that safeguards critical security processing. Deployed in its own optimized hardware environment, KoolSpan’s high-performance security engine remains protected from threats that can reside in open platform and mobile host devices.
“KoolSpan technology is built on a rich heritage of innovation, and we are pleased to expand our intellectual property portfolio with this patent award,” said KoolSpan CEO Tony Fascenda.
Rigorously tested and reviewed by top security research organizations in the United States government, as well as many industry trade publications, KoolSpan is an Information Security Magazine/TechTarget Readers Choice Award winner for Best Emerging Technology, a category winner of the SC Award for Best Multi-Factor Authentication technology, and was featured by the editors of Network World as one of the Top Ten “Security Companies to Watch.”
For more information on patent number 7,725,933 please visit the United States Office of Patents and trademarks at www.uspto.gov.
About KoolSpan, Inc.
Based in Bethesda, Md., KoolSpan is the leading innovator of simple secure connectivity solutions that seamlessly unite mission-critical network devices. From smartphones to servers, KoolSpan’s TrustChip® crypto engine creates secure and trusted connections between any two points independent of network boundaries. KoolSpan delivers off-the-shelf enterprise and developer-friendly embeddable solutions, enabling a flexible, cost-effective approach to device security that can drop in, operate automatically and self-manage in a wide range of platforms. To learn more, visit www.koolspan.com or call 240.880.4400.
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