Patent AU-2020205241-A1 (AU)
Title: Expandable body device and method of use
Inventor: FRANANO F NICHOLAS
IPC: A61B17/135
Filed: 2020-07-14
Abstract: INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) 
(19) World Intellectual Property 
Organization 
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(43) International Publication Date W O 2016/044647 A2 
24 March 2016 (24.03.2016) W IPOIPCT 
(51) International Patent Classification: (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every 
A61F 2/04 (2013.01) kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, 
AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, 
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MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, 
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TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW.  
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62/051,873 17 September 2014 (17.09.2014) US (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every 
kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, 
(71) Applicant: METACTIVE MEDICAL, INC. [US/US]; GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, 
10900 S. Clay Blair Blvd., Olathe, Kansas 66061 (US). TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, 
(72) Inventors: FRANANO, F. Nicholas; c/o Metactive Med- TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, 
ical, Inc., 10900 S. Clay Blair Blvd., Olathe, Kansas 66061 DK, EE, ES, Fl, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, 
(US). BRUNELL, Stephen; c/o Metactive Medical, Inc., LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, 
10900 S. Clay Blair Blvd., Olathe, Kansas 66061 (US). SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, 
STEPHENSON, Katherine; c/o Metactive Medical, Inc., GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG).  
10900 S. Clay Blair Blvd., Olathe, Kansas 66061 (US). Published: 
LOREEII,Howard,M.;doMetactiveMedical,Inc. without international search report and to be republished 
10900 S. Clay Blair Blvd., Olathe, Kansas 66061 (US). upon receipt of that report (Rule 48.2(g)) 
(74) Agents: DEAN, III, Elton F. et al.; Polsinelli PC, 100 
South Fourth Street, Suite 1000, St. Louis, Missouri 
63102-1825 (US).  
(54) Title: EXPANDABLE BODY DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE 
(57) Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, designs, methods of manufacturing and using medical devices comprising expandable 
bodies for treating saccular vascular aneurysms and occluding segments of blood vessels and other biological conduits. Exemplary 
expandable bodies include hollow gold structures that can be folded, wrapped, and compressed, joined to a delivery device, ad
vanced to location in the body of patient in need of treatment, expanded by injection of a fluid into the central void, and separated 
f4 from the delivery device, remaining in place in an open, expanded form without the addition of support structures to the central void.  
Other expandable bodies include coiled wires that can be loaded into delivery catheters and expelled from the delivery catheters us 
ing pusher devices. Also disclosed herein, are methods of using multiple medical devices and expandable bodies where the expand 
able bodies are placed adjacent to each other to occlude a saccular aneurysm.