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No fragment states an aggregate patent count or density for the town, and this section establishes why: the number is not extractable from the open record at any honest strength, and the gap is named rather than papered over. The searches behind that finding: Google Patents inventor search is name-indexed — it answers "what did this inventor file," not "what was filed from this place" — and it returns the town's one documented inventor's partial table, printed above, and nothing place-shaped. The banked file's own limit governs the older record: nineteenth-century patent indexes are name-indexed, not place-indexed, so no historical density can be built from them either. What can honestly be said is what the build already says: one documented inventor, at least eight patents counted at reference-record strength, four publications now extracted. A density figure — patents per capita, patents per decade — computed from that base would be arithmetic on a sample of one, and it is not printed. The settler is named and stands current: USPTO place-level patent data for Lakeville and Union Township, from which a true count could be drawn entire.