The Patent City in Aggregate — the Attempt, and Why No Rank Is Claimed

USPTO counts for the town and ZIP 46552 against county and state, at the strength the published counts reach

Lead: No count, and therefore no rank, is claimed in this article — and the attempt is printed in place of one, as ordered. What the published aggregate record offers is county-level, not town-level: the National Science Board's invention indicators, built from USPTO PatentsView data, publish utility patents granted per 1,000 residents by U.S. county (the 2020 figure allocating patents by inventor and owner addresses, with an express caution that addresses without ZIP codes were co-assigned across counties for about fourteen percent of U.S. patent counts). New Carlisle's ZIP, 46552, covers some 63.86 square miles and about 6,693 residents well beyond the town's 1,891 — so even a ZIP count, had one been workable at this seat, would measure the township and its countryside, not the town. At this seat, no published town- or ZIP-level USPTO count for New Carlisle could be worked, and the five residence-verified patents in this section's first article are a floor found by searching, not a total. The settler is named plainly: a USPTO PatentsView query by inventor city and state, or its successor USPTO full-text search by residence, run to a count for New Carlisle, Indiana, with South Bend, St. Joseph County and Indiana totals from the same query for comparison. Until that count is run, this town's aggregate line reads: at least five residence patents, 1894–2005, total unknown, rank unclaimed.

Sources:

1. National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics — Science and Engineering Indicators, Figure INV-4: USPTO utility patents granted to U.S. owners per 1,000 residents, by U.S. county, 2020, with PatentsView sourcing and address-allocation cautions, https://NCSES.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20224/assets/invention-indicators-protecting-useful-ideas/figures/nsb20224-figinv-004.pdf
2. ZIP 46552 reference data — New Carlisle, Indiana, St. Joseph County, approximately 63.86 square miles and 6,693 residents, https://www.zipcodestogo.com/New%20Carlisle/IN/46552/