Incentive stock plans and stock-based compensation | 8. Incentive stock plans and stock-based compensation Stock awards On February 13, 2019, 100,000 stock awards were granted to a newly appointed director of the Company. The stock awards vest equally, annually, over 3 years. The stock awards are valued based on the closing price of $0.42 of the Company’s common stock on February 13, 2019, and a discount for post-vesting restrictions on sale until the three-year anniversary of the grant date. Each vesting tranche of the award is valued separately with an appropriate discount. At June 30, 2021, 33,334 stock awards remained unvested and 66,666 shares are to be issued. The Company recorded compensation expense of approximately $3,500 and $3,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and compensation expense of approximately $6,800 and $6,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, related to those stock awards. The total unrecognized compensation expense related to these unvested stock awards at June 30, 2021 is $8,700, which will be recognized over the remaining vesting period of approximately 0.625 Capital Stock During the period ended June 30, 2021, a) the Company incurred $40,000 of director fees payable in 176,924 shares of its common stock which were not issued as of June 30, 2021 and b) 66,666 stock awards vested which were not issued at June 30, 2021. As of December 31, 2020, there were 193,828 shares of Company common stock to be issued to the independent directors of the Company, in payment of quarterly directors’ fees due to them for services in 2020 and 33,333 stock awards to be issued to a director of the Company. The equity compensation awards were issued pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 (“1933 Act”) provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the 1933 Act. On July 15, 2021, the Company newly issued 370,752 shares of its common stock to the independent directors of the Company in payment of quarterly directors’ fees due to them in the amount of $80,000 and $40,000 for services in 2020 and the six months ended on June 30, 2021, respectively. |