EndoChoice, Inc. announced today it has filed a Complaint against Austin Medical, Inc., AVID Medical, Inc., and Cygnus Medical LLC, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleging that each defendant makes and/or sells a scope transport pad that infringes EndoChoice's U.S. Patent No. 8,042,688 (the '688 patent). The '688 patent was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2011 and covers EndoChoice's innovative Cinchpad(R) product.