LEASES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Leases

LEASES

16. LEASES

In 2011, the Company executed a lease (the “Lease”) with Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P. (Brandywine), a Delaware limited partnership, for a 10,870 square foot premises located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and relocated its offices to Lawrenceville, New Jersey from Columbia, Maryland. The Lease had an initial term of 66 months. In late 2015, Lenox Drive Office Park LLC, purchased the real estate and office building and assumed the Lease. This Lease was set to expire on April 30, 2017. In April 2017, the Company and the landlord amended the Lease effective May 1, 2017. The 1^st Lease Amendment extended the term of the agreement for an additional 64 months, reduced the premises to 7,565 square feet, reduced the monthly rent and provided four months free rent. The monthly rent ranged from approximately $18,900 in the first year to approximately $20,500 in the final year of the 1^st Lease Amendment. Effective January 9, 2019, the Company amended the terms of the 1^st Lease Amendment to increase the size of the premises by 2,285 square feet to 9,850 square feet and extended the lease term by one year to September 1, 2023. The Company had a one-time option to cancel the lease after 40 months as part of the 1^st Lease Amendment, which was extended with the 2^nd Lease Amendment. The option to cancel the lease expired on August 31, 2020. The monthly rent under the 2^nd Lease Amendment ranges from approximately $25,035 in the first year to approximately $27,088 in the final year of the lease.

In connection with the EGEN Asset Purchase Agreement in June 2014, the Company assumed the existing lease with another landlord for an 11,500 square foot premises located in Huntsville Alabama. In January 2018, the Company and the Huntsville landlord entered into a new 60-month lease which reduced the premises to 9,049 square feet with rent payments of approximately $18,100 per month. On June 9, 2021 and, as amended on July 7, 2021, the Company and the Huntsville landlord entered into a 22-month lease for an additional 2,197 square foot premises with rent payments of approximately $5,500 per month. In January 2023, the Company renewed Huntsville for a 60-month lease agreement for 11,420 square feet with rent payments of approximately $28,550.

The following is a table of the lease payments and maturity of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of December 31, 2022:

	For the year ending December 31,
2023	$	238,609
2024 and thereafter		-
Subtotal future lease payments		238,609
Less imputed interest		(7,860	)
Total lease liabilities	$	230,749
Weighted average remaining life		0.61 years
Weighted average discount rate		9.98	%

For 2022, operating lease expense was $587,744 and cash paid for operating leases included in operating cash flows was $601,495. For 2021, operating lease expense was $560,513 and cash paid for operating leases included in operating cash flows was $568,269. Amortization expense was approximately $535,000 and $573,000 for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.