OTHER EQUITY TRANSACTIONS (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

Disclosure of Share-based Compensation Arrangements by Share-based Payment Award

The following shares issued during 2017 were recorded in expense or prepaid asset using the grant-date fair value of the stock:

							Grant date
							fair value
							recorded at
		Expense/	Stock		Total no.		issuance
Date of	Type of	Prepaid/	issuance	Reason for	of		(in
issuance	issuance	Cash	recipient	issuance	shares		thousands)
January, April and August 2017	Vested restricted common stock	Expense	Four board members	Director compensation		33,956	$	150
January, February and June 2017	Common stock	Expense	Three Employees	Approved bonus		28,634		182	(1)
January 2017	Common stock	Expense	Related party	Q4 Royalty Fee		1,233		8	(1)
January and February 2017	Common stock	Expense	Two Employees	Cashless stock option exercises		245		—	(2)
May 2017	Common stock	Prepaid exp/expense	Third-party consultant	Strategic investor marketing services		15,000		57	(3)
						79,068	$	397	(4)

⁽¹⁾ Bonuses and royalty of $176 thousand were accrued and expensed in 2016.

⁽²⁾ The Company received $— for the issuance in the cashless option exercises.

⁽³⁾ Amount includes $38 thousand that was included in prepaid expense at September 30, 2017.

⁽⁴⁾ Does not include stock expense of $130 thousand included in accrued liabilities at September 30, 2017 for unissued stock.