SAN DIEGO, April 26, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TearLab Corporation (Nasdaq:TEAR) (TSX:TLB) today announced that it has been granted U.S Patent No. 7,905,134, entitled “Biomarker Normalization.” This patent provides the company with broad and blocking intellectual property regarding the ability to compensate for first order dynamics in the eye, which is fundamental to accurate tear biomarker analysis, whether involving proteins, genes, or small molecules.