ContraFect Corporation, a late clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of direct lytic agents, including lysins and amurin peptides, as new medical modalities for the treatment of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 10,988,520, on April 27, 2021 for CF-370, the company’s second potential therapeutic product candidate.