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The Roncz patents: the count stands, the table still stands open

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"At least eight patents, usually as part of a team" — that is the whole of the patent record any carrier reached prints, and the patent-by-patent table remains unextracted. The claim's chain stands as the tested file left it: John Gregory Roncz (25 May 1948 – 27 September 2023), the town's aerodynamicist, holds "at least eight patents, usually as part of a team of inventors" on his reference record, which cites the Justia inventor index ("Patents by Inventor John Roncz," retrieved there 15 August 2024) for the count; one patent is named in that record's own apparatus — "Wingtip for a General Aviation aircraft" — and no second is named in any carrier. The extraction the audit assigns was attempted and its failure is documented, not elided: searches for the Justia inventor page return a thicket of near-names — Ronald L. Roncone, John Anthony Ronciak, Wayne L. Ronci, John C. Rondoni — each a different inventor with a Justia page of his own, and the Roncz page itself was not retrieved whole; a table built from those neighbours would be a fabrication, and none is built. Priority therefore settles exactly this far: the count (at least eight) at reference-record strength, one named patent, the team-inventor character stated by the same carrier, and the Newton limb's negative already banked (no patent naming Robert or Joyce Newton or Hoosier Racing Tire surfaced; settler, a USPTO assignee search read entire). The row closes mixed, its residue named and current: the Justia inventor page for John Roncz, read entire, with a Google Patents cross-check — the same settler the tested file named, still open, still reachable.

Principal sources: the banked this history lk-tst-honors (the count, the Justia citation, the Newton negative and its settler); the Roncz reference record's Patents and awards apparatus as searched November 2026; Justia Patents inventor pages for the near-name inventors, read only to establish they are not Roncz.

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Source: The Roncz patents: the count stands, the table still stands open, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/stories-told/roncz-patents-the-count-stands-the-table-still-stands/