ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,753, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Message encoding for weapon communications" was invented by Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.) and Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for communicating across electronic components of a device. The device may be a gun, and the device may encode messages to improve the security of the device. The device may obtain a first spreading code, encode, at a first electronic component, a first message according to the first spreading code to produce a first encoded message, tr...