# K950985: Zeiss Endolive Stero Endoscope

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Carl Zeiss, Inc.
- Decided: Mar 29, 1995 after 26 days
- Product code: GCJ (Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery)
- 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
No predicates in its family tree.
44 later devices descend from it; 3 cite it directly.
0 of 45 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- None. FDA has not posted a summary or statement for it, so its predicates are not known.

## Most influential descendants
- K970214: 3 Dimensional Video Endoscope (1997), 42 descendants of its own
- K990635: Vista Stereoscope System (1999), 41 descendants of its own
- K082355: Visionsense Stereoscopic Vision System (2008), 37 descendants of its own
- K141002: VS3 Stereoscopic High Definition Vision System (2014), 36 descendants of its own
- K152204: VS3-IR system (2015), 34 descendants of its own

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K950985
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology