US 12,080,118 B1
Message encoding for weapon communications
Jack Hugo Thiesen, Firestone, CO (US); and Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Denver, CO (US)
Assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc., Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed by Biofire Technologies Inc., Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/931,247.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/242,844, filed on Sep. 10, 2021.
Int. Cl. G07C 9/37 (2020.01); F41A 17/06 (2006.01)
CPC G07C 9/37 (2020.01) [F41A 17/066 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
2. A method of communicating across electronic components of a gun, the method comprising:
obtaining a first spreading code;
encoding, at a first electronic component, a first message according to the first spreading code to produce a first encoded message;
transmitting the first encoded message from the first electronic component to a second electronic component across a physical communication channel;
decoding, at the second electronic component, the first encoded message according to the first spreading code; and
performing, based on decoding the first encoded message, a first action, the first action comprising discharging electric charge from a capacitor bank, charging the capacitor bank, firing a first projectile, arming the gun, disarming the gun, or transmitting first data across an additional communication channel.