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Some towns hold a chapter in a famous outside inventor's life — a boyhood home, a workshop season, a patent filed from a local address — and the checklist requires the pattern tested at chapter size; for Lakeville the test returns empty, and the empty result is printed with its search. John Roncz is not the pattern case: he is a resident inventor, seated in Lakeville, whose work is the town's own inventors article, not a visitor's chapter. For an outside name, the inventor indexes and reference records searched return no Lakeville chapter for any famous inventor — no Farnsworth-pattern boyhood, no visiting experimenter's local season, no outside inventor's patent drawn from a Lakeville address in any carrier reached. The negative is printed at the strength reached — index and web-search strength, the same limit the banked file states for its own inventor tests, since nineteenth-century patent indexes are name-indexed, not place-indexed — and no chapter is invented to fill it. Should a place-indexed source surface, the test re-runs; as the record stands in November 2026, the town's inventors record is its residents' record only.