ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,751, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner particle having hydrotalcite particle containing fluorine" was invented by Shohei Tsuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenta Kamikura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Fukudome (Tokyo), Yuta Komiya (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Arimura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Toru Ishii (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, and a strontium titanate particle and a hydrotalcite particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein the hydrotalcite particle comprises fluorine, the fluorine is present inside the hydrotalcite particle in line ...