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The leg closes on the living research city, and Mishawaka's prints at its true, smaller size. The checklist's form is a standing research institution — the Mirro Center pattern, a named center with its own research program — and that instance is South Bend's: Beacon's Mirro Center for Research and Innovation, boundary-printed in its system's frame. No standalone research institution is seated in Mishawaka in the present record: no research center, no independent laboratory, no university research office with a public program. What the city holds is research inside its firms and its hospital system — the engineering development of the industrial record's surviving manufacturers, the clinical work of the hospitals section's systems — carried in those sections at their own sizes, and pointed to here rather than gathered into a center that does not exist. Bethel University's scholarship is a teaching university's, real and uncentered. The closing state of the inventors leg is therefore the honest symmetry of its openings: a city that patented prolifically for a century in its men's names, that kept its medicine practical and its research in-house, and that enters 2026 still inventing at the bench rather than the institute — the record of its grants closed at 216 and its annex, its hidden inventors searched and named as hidden, and its research present everywhere except in a building with Research on the door.