ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,989, issued on May 5, was assigned to OXFORD INSTRUMENTS TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Semiconductor radiation detector assembly" was invented by Seppo Nenonen (Espoo, Finland) and Hans Andersson (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a header for a radiation detector assembly provided for mounting a detector head into an enclosure formed by the header and a detector can to form the radiation detector assembly. The detector head includes a semiconductor radiation detector arranged on a first side of a substrate and a thermoelectric cooler, TEC, arranged on a second side of the substrate, the header including:...