Zeno sells four network security patent to SF-based RPX Corporation for undisclosed amount

Bangalore-headquartered Zeno Security Corporation has entered an agreement to sell its portfolio of network security patents to San Francisco based RPX Corporation. The terms of the agreement are undisclosed. The deal includes the sale of three issued US Patents, and one pending US Patent Application.

"The invention solves an important problem in the field of vulnerability assessment making it work real time. Prior to the invention, all vulnerability assessment tools were run only periodically," said Samir Kelekar, the inventor and co-founder of Zeno Security Corporation.

The patents, the first of which was filed in 2003, cover critical techniques in the area of enterprise and mobile security. The technology has wide application in the area of vulnerability assessment, end-point security, and network access control (NAC). This is one of the rare occasions when network security patents conceived by an India-based inventor Samir Kelekar have been acquired by a top California-based company.


"If in the course of the day if a user started a vulnerable service and ran a faulty version of a real player, that vulnerability would be missed. What this invention does is deploy an agent that tracks the start and stop of services. It tracks that a real player is started and finds the vulnerabilities in it in real time," Kelekar said.

The board and leadership team of Zeno Security Corporation comprise of network security expert Kelekar, the inventor and IIT Bombay alumnus with a PhD degree from Columbia University; Praveer Gupta, co-founder and alumnus of IIT Delhi, and an expert in US patent prosecution; and Kapil Talwar, an entrepreneur with diverse interests and IIT Bombay alumnus with a PhD degree from Washington University in Saint Louis.

Transactions IP LLC brokered the deal between Zeno and RPX.