Our Patent Portfolio

Over the past decade, Gytheion has been awarded multiple patents by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Our research and development efforts are concentrated in the wireless networking and content security spaces. Below are our issued patents covering technologies that were invented by Joseph P. Marino and Jonathan Fortin.

Many of the technologies covered by our patents, including our remote firmware upgrade technology, were built for a product called the Spam Cube – the world's first home network security appliance. The Spam Cube was released in 2006 and was tested and reviewed by tech journalists such as Tom Spring of PC World and David Pogue of the New York Times. The Spam Cube also received a WebAward from the Web Marketing Association, and was featured on the front page of the New York Times business section, appeared in PC World magazine and was featured in ABC News, Engadget and other publications.

Today, the patents to Gytheion’s Remote Firmware Upgrader are licensed by 10 leading wireless networking OEMs and the technology is in use in millions of wireless routers, access points and wireless gateways worldwide. A Notable licensee is a Fortune 500 technology company with a market capitalization exceeding $100B.


Issued Patents
Patent Number Title Priority Date Forward Citing Companies
9,558,353 Wireless Router Remote Firmware Upgrade 02-05-2005 Apple, Cisco, Google, Fortinet, Level 3, Amazon
8,402,109 Wireless Router Remote Firmware Upgrade 02-05-2005 Google, Red Hat, Western Digital, DELL, Symantec and others
7,904,518 Apparatus and method for analyzing and filtering email and for providing web related services 02-05-2005 Microsoft, Amazon, Computer Associates, Samsung, Verizon and others
8,326,936 Apparatus and method for analyzing and filtering email and for providing web related services 02-05-2005 -