ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. RE50,543, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mobile communications system and mobile terminal" was invented by Miho Maeda (Tokyo), Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo), Yasushi Iwane (Tokyo), Tetsuya Mishuku (Tokyo), Masaaki Kusano (Tokyo), Ryoichi Fujie (Tokyo), Shigenori Tani (Tokyo), Keiko Tada (Tokyo), Noriyuki Fukui (Tokyo) and Michiaki Takano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile terminal 3 judges whether or not the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, and, when judging that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, notifies ...