Patents Assigned to Ovesco Endoscopy, GmbH
  • Apparatus and method for compressing body tissue
    Patent number: 6849078
    Abstract: A system and method for delivering a surgical clip to a surgical site within a patient's body to compress body tissue is disclosed. In one embodiment for the system of the present invention, the system includes an endoscopic device that has an endoscope cap disposed on a distal end of the endoscopic device. A surgical clip is removably disposed on an outside surface of the endoscope cap. A deployment device is associated with the surgical clip for deploying the surgical clip from the endoscope cap to the body tissue that is to be compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Ovesco Endoscopy, GmbH
    Inventors: Russell F. Durgin, Marc O. Schurr, Gerhard Buess, Bernd Vogel, Harald Fischer