# K070686: Mini Lap Instruments

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Mini Lap Technologies, Inc.
- Decided: Apr 5, 2007 after 24 days
- Product code: OCW (Endoscopic Tissue Approximation Device)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 876.1500
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 1 generation back to K992904 (1999). 1 ancestor in all.
6 later devices descend from it; 6 cite it directly.
0 of 8 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K992904: Mini-Port, Taut, Inc. (1999) Summary page 5.

## Cited in the summary but kept off the family tree
- K951173: Manual Surgical Instrument for General Use, United States Surgical, A Division of Tyco Healthc (1995). Our OCR of the scanned summary read K951173, FDA’s number for Manual Surgical Instrument for General Use (United States Surgical, A Division of Tyco Healthc). Its FDA name has none of the distinctive words the summary uses for the device it names, “MiniSite 2mm Laparoscopic Instruments”. Kept off the family tree. Summary page 5.
- K062326: Autosuture Modified Versaport Trocar with Fixation Sleeve, United States Surgical, A Division of Tyco Healthc (2006). Our OCR of the scanned summary read K062326, FDA’s number for Autosuture Modified Versaport Trocar with Fixation Sleeve (United States Surgical, A Division of Tyco Healthc). Its FDA name has none of the distinctive words the summary uses for the device it names, “MiniPort 2mm”. Kept off the family tree. Summary page 5.
- K612007: Adapt Pediatric Access Ports. Not in FDA’s 510(k), De Novo or PMA lists as we hold them (a misreading, a typo, or a number FDA does not list), so it is kept off the family tree Summary page 5.

## Most influential descendants
- K113597: Mini-Lap Bipolar Electrocautery Devices (2012), 1 descendant of its own
- K172775: MiniLap System with MiniGrip Handle, MiniLap System with ThumbGrip Handle (2018), 0 descendants of its own
- K160149: Miret Grasper, Alligator, Miret Grasper, Maryland (2016), 0 descendants of its own
- K132232: Mins Needlescopic Resposable Device System (2013), 0 descendants of its own
- K101101: Mini-Tong (2010), 0 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
The MINI LAP Instruments are a family of minimally invasive devices with the means to penetrate soft tissue to access certain areas of the human anatomy. The devices are used to grasp, hold, and manipulate other soft internal tissues as well as items such as hernia mesh.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K070686
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology