US Patent 12080118 Message encoding for weapon communications

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, transmit the first encoded message from the first electronic component to a second electronic component across a physical communication channel, decode, at the second electronic component, the first encoded message according to the first spreading code, and perform a first action in response to the decoding the first encoded message. The first action may include discharging electric charge from a capacitor bank, charging the capacitor bank, firing a projectile, arming the device, disarming the device, or transmitting data across an additional communication channel.