MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517051132 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on May 28, for 'fabric-based root-of-trust.'

Inventor(s) include Dvorkin, Mike; Banerjee, Ayan; and Kar, Chakradhar.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of creating a root-of-trust (RoT) within a network fabric may include powering on a network interface card (NIC) baseboard management controller (BMC) (NIC BMC), booting up a NIC via the NIC BMC, obtaining an address for the NIC, verifying an identity of the NIC at a fabric trust identity server using a key o...