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James Michael Lay — 120 Patents

CRCree: 76 patents #19 of 639Top 3%
ABAcuity Brands: 10 patents #12 of 148Top 9%
ILIdeal Industries Lighting: 9 patents #15 of 178Top 9%
KBKnow Bio: 9 patents #8 of 19Top 45%
NENsi Enterprises: 5 patents #7 of 58Top 15%
PHPhotonmd: 4 patents #2 of 8Top 25%
CSCree Led Lighting Solutions: 3 patents #6 of 9Top 70%
AHAbl Ip Holding: 1 patents #349 of 567Top 65%
IIIdeal Industries: 1 patents #74 of 166Top 45%
Apex, NC: #4 of 1,394 inventorsTop 1%
North Carolina: #100 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #9,974 of 4,157,543Top 1%
120 Patents All Time
James Michael Lay has been granted 120 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in September 2025. James Michael Lay ranks #9,974 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.24%). Patent records list James Michael Lay in Apex, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 120 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12427333 Phototherapy devices for treatment of dermatological disorders of the scalp Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gerald H. Negley, Matthew C. Reynolds 2025-09-30
11975215 Devices and related methods for phototherapeutic treatment of skin Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr. 2024-05-07
11752359 Illumination devices for inducing biological effects David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble, Antony Paul Van De Ven, Nathan Stasko +3 more 2023-09-12
11684798 Illumination devices for inducing biological effects David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble, Antony Paul Van De Ven, Nathan Stasko +3 more 2023-06-27
D987094 Oral illumination device David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble 2023-05-23
11428373 Edge lit fixture Randy Bernard, Nathan Snell, S. Scott Pratt 2022-08-30
11408569 Mounting system for retrofit light installation into existing light fixtures S. Scott Pratt, Patrick John O'Flaherty, Nathan Snell 2022-08-09
11400309 Phototherapy devices for treatment of dermatological disorders of the scalp Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gerald H. Negley, Matthew C. Reynolds 2022-08-02
D952876 Oral illumination device David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble 2022-05-24
D952171 Oral illumination device David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble 2022-05-17
11209135 Modular indirect suspended/ceiling mount fixture Nathan Snell, Nick Nguyen, Patrick John O'Flaherty 2021-12-28
11162655 Modular LED lighting system Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Randall Levy Bernard 2021-11-02
D935040 Phototherapy cap Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Owen Lewis Joyce 2021-11-02
RE48489 Gas cooled LED lamp Christopher P. Hussell, John Edmond, Gerald H. Negley, Curt Progl, Mark Edmond +6 more 2021-03-30
10823347 Modular indirect suspended/ceiling mount fixture Nathan Snell, Nick Nguyen, Patrick John O'Flaherty 2020-11-03
10788176 Modular LED lighting system Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Randall Levy Bernard 2020-09-29
10690305 Edge lit fixture Randy Bernard, Nathan Snell, S. Scott Pratt 2020-06-23
10688315 Phototherapy devices for treatment of dermatological disorders of the scalp Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gerald H. Negley, Matthew C. Reynolds 2020-06-23
10584860 Linear light fixture with interchangeable light engine unit William L. Dungan, Nathan Snell, Gary David Trott 2020-03-10
10544925 Mounting system for retrofit light installation into existing light fixtures S. Scott Pratt, Patrick John O'Flaherty, Nathan Snell 2020-01-28
D849959 Phototherapy cap Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Owen Lewis Joyce 2019-05-28
10203088 Direct and back view LED lighting system Paul Kenneth Pickard 2019-02-12 $14,174,000
D833025 Lens for phototherapy cap Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Owen Lewis Joyce 2018-11-06
D826416 Flexible printed circuit board for phototherapy cap Matthew C. Reynolds, Owen Lewis Joyce, Ryan Springer 2018-08-21
10045418 Systems and methods for high output, high color quality light Brian Kinnune, David P. Goelz, Don Miletich, Alan J. Ruud, Kurt S. Wilcox +4 more 2018-08-07 $10,986,000