ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,631, issued on June 23, was assigned to THERMO ELECTRON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS LLC (Madison, Wis.).

"Swappable detector module for spectroscope systems" was invented by Min Yan (Verona, Wis.), William Bayer (Black Earth, Wis.) and William Keefe (Oconomowoc, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removably insertable detector module for a spectroscope. An example microscope system includes a microscope plate, a plurality of posts fix-mounted to the microscope plate, and a detector module removably mounted to the microscope plate. The posts align the detector module with respect to the microscope plate. The detector module includes a de...