US 12,185,951 B2
Clip systems for treating body tissues
Douglas C. Shepard, Mansfield, MA (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/822,280.
Application 17/822,280 is a continuation of application No. 16/750,933, filed on Jan. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,457,928.
Application 16/750,933 is a continuation of application No. 15/815,254, filed on Nov. 16, 2017, granted, now 10,575,858, issued on Mar. 3, 2020.
Application 15/815,254 is a continuation of application No. 14/596,530, filed on Jan. 14, 2015, granted, now 9,848,885, issued on Dec. 26, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/928,783, filed on Jan. 17, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0401108 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 17/128 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/064 (2006.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 17/08 (2006.01); A61B 17/10 (2006.01); A61B 17/122 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1285 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00131 (2013.01); A61B 17/064 (2013.01); A61B 17/0682 (2013.01); A61B 17/083 (2013.01); A61B 17/10 (2013.01); A61B 17/122 (2013.01); A61B 17/1227 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00296 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0645 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for compressing body tissue, comprising:
advancing an endoscope, on which a mounting bar is mounted via a coupling structure, to a target site in a living body, the endoscope comprising a plurality of clips mounted over an outer surface thereof, each of the clips having a connection portion with first and second clip arms extending therefrom and a recess formed on an inner surface of the connection portion, the recess being shaped and sized to slidably receive the mounting bar so that, when the coupling structure is mounted on the endoscope in a desired orientation, the first and second clip arms extend around the endoscope with the endoscope holding the first and second clip arms apart from one another in a tissue receiving configuration;
drawing tissue into the endoscope; and
actuating a control member to slide a first one of the clips distally along a distal end of the endoscope, the first clip being a distal-most one of the clips currently mounted over the outer surface of the endoscope, until the first clip is moved off of the endoscope so that the first and second clip arms of the first clip close to grip tissue therebetween.