SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2006--OcuSense, Inc., a developer of doctor’s office-based tests for eye care, has received notice from the United States Patent & Trademark Office that one of its core patents was issued on March 28, 2006. This patent, titled “Tear Film Osmometry” (USPTO #7,017,394), claims a lab on a chip approach to measure tear osmolarity for the diagnosis and management of Dry Eye Syndrome (DES).