ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,396, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system" was invented by Miho Maeda (Tokyo), Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo), Yasushi Iwane (Tokyo), Takayuki Nonami (Tokyo), Taisei Suemitsu (Tokyo) and Yuichi Nakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a communication terminal device, a base station device performing radio communication with the communication terminal device, and a base station controller controlling the base station device. The communication terminal device is a machine type communication (MTC) device, The base station controller includes a mobilit...