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X-spine Systems, Inc. Granted Key Patent for Disk Augmentation System

Published in Medical Patent Law Weekly, November 7th, 2007

Spinal technology company X-spine Systems, Inc., announced that the United States Patent Office granted a key patent protecting the company's latest technology for augmentation of the spinal disk and functional spinal unit: "Disk Augmentation System and Method, US 7,282,065."

"We believe this technology represents the next evolution in the surgical treatment of degenerative disk disease," states David Kirschman, M.D., president of X-spine. "The key concept of this technology is to augment, rather than replace, degenerating spinal motion elements, including disks and facet joints."

The disk augmentation technology incorporates a unique adjustable...

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