WILLIAM E QUINN
Broker in Swampscott, MA

7001425, Feb 21, 2006

Nov 15, 2002

10/295454

Orla McCullagh - Waltham MA, US
William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA, US

Scimed Life Systems, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

A61F 2/06

623 153

A stent and method for making the stent are provided. The stent comprises regions of differing numbers of braided filaments to provide a stent with different dimensions and/or properties in different regions along the stent length. A preferred stent comprises a first and second plurality of braided filaments each braided together. The second plurality of braided filaments is braided into the first plurality of braided filaments to form a region of different properties than the first. A preferred embodiment is a stent having a narrower diameter along a more flexible region and a broader diameter along a more rigid region. Also included is a method of constructing a braided stent in accordance with the above. The method comprises the steps of braiding a first plurality of filaments to form the flexible portion, combining a second plurality of filaments to the first plurality of filaments, and then braiding the second plurality of filaments with the first plurality of filaments to form the more rigid region from the combination of the first and second plurality of filaments, wherein the second plurality of filaments are braided only in the rigid region.

5092141, Mar 3, 1992

Jun 27, 1991

7/725939

William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA

Raytheon Company - Lexington MA

D06F 3902, D06F 3908

68 17R

A clothes washing machine including a cabinet having an upper wall portion provided with a clothes receiving opening, an annular cowling within the cabinet and having an inner peripheral portion encircling the clothes receiving opening, the cowling having an annular midportion sloped radially downward to an outer peripheral portion of the cowling which is secured to a rim of a drain tub defining an open end thereof, the drain tub having rotatably supported therein a spin tub with an opening disposed within the open end portion of the drain tub and aligned with the clothes receiving opening, and a liquid soap dispensing system disposed within the cabinet and externally of the drain tub, the soap dispensing system comprising a multi-load reservoir of liquid soap connected hydraulically through a pump to a nozzle having a drain tube with a spout end portion adjacent the inner peripheral portion of the cowling and encircling a delivery tube which is disposed longitudinally and eccentrically within the drain tube, the delivery tube having an input end portion connected hydraulically to the pump and having an opposing spout end portion recessed axially within the spout end portion of the drain tube, the spout end portion of the delivery tube being conically shaped and having extended through a sloped wall portion thereof an outlet orifice which is aligned with a target aperture in the cowling overlooking the opening in the spin tub.

7213495, May 8, 2007

Dec 5, 2005

11/294287

Orla McCullagh - Waltham MA, US
William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA, US

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

D04C 1/06

87 9

A stent and method for making the stent are provided. The stent comprises regions of differing numbers of braided filaments to provide a stent with different dimensions and/or properties in different regions along the stent length. A preferred stent comprises a first and second plurality of braided filaments each braided together. The second plurality of braided filaments is braided into the first plurality of braided filaments to form a region of different properties than the first. A preferred embodiment is a stent having a narrower diameter along a more flexible region and a broader diameter along a more rigid region. Also included is a method of constructing a braided stent in accordance with the above. The method comprises the steps of braiding a first plurality of filaments to form the flexible portion, combining a second plurality of filaments to the first plurality of filaments, and then braiding the second plurality of filaments with the first plurality of filaments to form the more rigid region from the combination of the first and second plurality of filaments, wherein the second plurality of filaments are braided only in the rigid region.

7311031, Dec 25, 2007

Jan 25, 2007

11/657864

Orla McCullagh - Waltham MA, US
William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA, US

Scimed Life Systems, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

D04C 1/06

87 8, 87 13

A stent includes regions of differing numbers of braided filaments to provide different dimensions and/or properties in different regions along the stent length. The stent may include a first and second plurality of braided filaments each braided together. The second plurality of braided filaments is braided into the first plurality of braided filaments to form a region of different properties than the first. A method of constructing a braided stent includes the steps of braiding a first plurality of filaments to form the flexible portion, combining a second plurality of filaments to the first plurality of filaments, and then braiding the second plurality of filaments with the first plurality of filaments to form the more rigid region from the combination of the first and second plurality of filaments, where the second plurality of filaments is braided only in the rigid region.

7364587, Apr 29, 2008

Sep 10, 2004

10/938919

Jerry Q. Dong - Oakland NJ, US
John Spiridigloizzi - Sharon MA, US
Ronald Rakos - Neshanic Station NJ, US
Krzysztof Sowinski - Wallington NJ, US
William Quinn - Swampscott MA, US

Scimed Life Systems, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

A61F 2/06

623 15, 66195

A method for providing dilation resistance to an implantable tubular graft includes the steps of (a) providing a graft having opposed open ends and a textile wall extending in a lengthwise direction therebetween defining a graft diameter, wherein the textile wall has radially extending yarns having a radial extent which inter-engage longitudinally extending yarns having a longitudinal extent to define a textile pattern and further wherein the radially extending yarns are obliquely oriented to the lengthwise direction of the graft, thereby defining a first acute angle from the lengthwise direction of the graft; (b) providing an elongate tubular mandrel having a diameter which differs from the graft diameter by a factor of at least 1. 5; (c) positioning the graft over the mandrel to radially distend the graft, thereby reorienting the radially extending yarns to reduce the radial extent and to shift the radially extending yarns to a second acute angle from the lengthwise direction of the graft to define an reoriented textile pattern, wherein the second acute angle is greater than the first acute angle; and (d) heat setting the graft at a first temperature to set the inter-engaging yarns in the reoriented textile pattern to provide a graft with improved dilation resistance.

5119645, Jun 9, 1992

Dec 26, 1990

7/633927

Ross L. Bisplinghoff - Norfolk MA
William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA
Joseph C. Maiellano - Chelmsford MA
Robin C. Hossfield - Medway MA
Ronald A. Goyette - Ashby MA
Patrick J. Radle - Ripon WI

Raytheon Company - Lexington MA

D06F 3724

68 300R

A washing machine includes a mid-level pivot and traverse suspension arrangement and a modular assembly. A support having a central aperture is spaced from the washing machine base by a plurality of upstanding legs. The modular assembly, including a drain tub, a drive shaft, and a transmission, is disposed on the support with the drive shaft and the transmission extending through the central aperture of the support. The modular assembly is a disengageable intact from the support with the transmission and the drive shaft passing through the central aperture of the support.

8182524, May 22, 2012

Jul 23, 2010

12/842819

John Spiridigliozzi - Sharon MA, US
William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA, US
Orla McCullagh - Waltham MA, US

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

A61F 2/06

623 113, 623 135

A stent-graft comprising a stent and a graft having a supported portion lining or covering at least a portion of the stent, and an unsupported portion extending proximally beyond the proximal end of the stent. The stent-graft may have a length corresponding to at least a mean standard length from a standard incision point to a distal-most portion of a standard lumen into which the distal end of the stent is adapted to be deployed, with the unsupported portion of the graft extending beyond the mean standard length by an amount equal to at least two, if not three or more, standard deviations of the mean standard length. A method for deploying the stent-graft comprises making an incision in a wall of the lumen, introducing and deploying the stent-graft in the lumen so that the proximal end extends beyond the incision, and attaching the graft to a lumen by anastamosis.

7789903, Sep 7, 2010

Apr 4, 2002

10/116373

John Spiridigliozzi - Sharon MA, US
William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA, US
Orla McCullagh - Waltham MA, US

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

A61F 2/06

623 113, 623 135

A stent-graft comprising a stent and a graft having a supported portion lining or covering at least a portion of the stent, and an unsupported portion extending proximally beyond the proximal end of the stent. The stent-graft may have a length corresponding to at least a mean standard length from a standard incision point to a distal-most portion of a standard lumen into which the distal end of the stent is adapted to be deployed, with the unsupported portion of the graft extending beyond the mean standard length by an amount equal to at least two, if not three or more, standard deviations of the mean standard length. A method for deploying the stent-graft comprises making an incision in a wall of the lumen, introducing and deploying the stent-graft in the lumen so that the proximal end extends beyond the incision, and attaching the graft to a lumen by anastamosis.

5117658, Jun 2, 1992

Dec 26, 1990

7/633816

Ross L. Bisplinghoff - Norfolk MA
William R. Quinn - Swampscott MA
Steven R. Hall - Billerica MA
Joseph C. Maiellano - Chelmsford MA
Gregory L. Malchow - Oshkosh WI
W. Wallace White - Ripon WI

Raytheon Company - Lexington MA

D06F 3724

68 233

A washing machine having a mid-level pivot and traverse suspension system. The washing machine includes a tub assembly disposed over a support, with the assembly having a center of mass disposed at approximately the same axial position as the typical out-of-balance load. The pivoting force is a function of the distance between the center of mass of the tub assembly and the out-of-balance load. Thus, the pivoting forces are reduced, as well as the corresponding reaction forces transferred to the floor.

8062346, Nov 22, 2011

Dec 18, 2008

12/338904

Fergus Quigley - Seattle WA, US
Robert C. Thistle - Bridgewater MA, US
William Quinn - Swampscott MA, US

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

A61F 2/82

623 113, 623 122

The present invention provides an endoprosthesis comprising a radially distensible, tubular stent comprising opposed open ends and a stent wall structure having opposed exterior and luminal surfaces; and a continuous and seamless ePTFE tubular covering having a node and fibril structure securably disposed to at least one of the stent surfaces, the graft covering comprising at least two laminated layers, wherein the laminated layers include at least one region where the laminated layers are not securely bonded; and the at least one region has a different bending flexibility from the tubular graft covering.