QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
−Removed: As a smaller reporting company, we are not required
−Removed: to provide this information.
+Added: As a smaller reporting company, we are not required to provide this information.
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
ClearSign Technologies Corporation
−Removed: and Subsidiary
−Removed: INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED
−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
ANNUAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION
−Removed: of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: Balance Sheets at December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Statements of Equity for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
−Removed: To the Board of Directors
−Removed: and Stockholders of
−Removed: ClearSign Technologies
−Removed: Opinion on the Financial
−Removed: We have audited the
−Removed: accompanying consolidated balance sheets of ClearSign Technologies Corporation and subsidiary (the "Company") as of December 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019, and the related consolidated statements of operations, equity, and cash flows, for each of the two years in the period
−Removed: ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements").
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company
−Removed: as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID 207 )
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID 285 )
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Consolidated Statements of S tockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation and Subsidiary
+Added: Opinion on the Financial Statements
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of ClearSign Technologies Corporation and subsidiary (the "Company") as of December 31, 2021 , and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows, for the year ended December 31, 2021 , and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements").
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021 , and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2021 , in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial
−Removed: statements are the responsibility of the Company's management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's consolidated
−Removed: financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
−Removed: (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits
−Removed: in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance
−Removed: about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is
−Removed: not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits,
−Removed: we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
−Removed: on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's consolidated financial statements based on our audit.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included
−Removed: performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or
−Removed: fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding
−Removed: the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used
−Removed: and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
−Removed: The critical audit
−Removed: matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was
−Removed: communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
−Removed: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are
−Removed: material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex
−Removed: The communication of this critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial
−Removed: statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the
−Removed: critical audit matter or on the account or disclosures to which it relates.
−Removed: Patents and Other
−Removed: Intangible Assets Impairment Assessment
−Removed: As described in Notes
−Removed: 2 and 4 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s patents and other intangible assets balance was $1.3 million as
−Removed: of December 31, 2020, which primarily consists of patents and trademarks.
−Removed: Patent and other intangible assets are tested for impairment
−Removed: whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable.
−Removed: We identified the carrying
−Removed: value of intangible assets as a critical audit matter.
−Removed: The methods and underlying assumptions in an impairment analysis involve high
−Removed: levels of management estimates and judgment, which in turn led to a high degree of auditor judgment and subjectivity in performing procedures
−Removed: and evaluating audit evidence.
−Removed: The following are the
−Removed: primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter.
−Removed: We reviewed current and previous operating conditions for indications
−Removed: of impairment.
+Added: The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
+Added: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: The communication of this critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the account or disclosures to which it relates.
+Added: Patents and Other Intangible Assets Impairment Assessment
+Added: As described in Notes 2 and 4 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s patents and other intangible assets balance was $0.8 million as of December 31, 2021, which primarily consists of patents and trademarks.
+Added: Patent and other intangible assets are tested for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable.
+Added: We identified the carrying value of intangible assets as a critical audit matter.
+Added: The methods and underlying assumptions in an impairment analysis involve high levels of management estimates and judgment, which in turn led to a high degree of auditor judgment and subjectivity in performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence.
+Added: The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter.
+Added: We reviewed current and previous operating conditions for indications of impairment.
We reviewed patent committee and board minutes and news for indications of impairment.
−Removed: We reviewed documents from current
−Removed: and potential future customers for evidence of future recoverability.
−Removed: As more fully described
−Removed: in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has incurred significant operating losses and negative operating cash
−Removed: flows since its inception.
−Removed: The Company’s continued operations are dependent upon its ability to raise additional funds through
−Removed: equity or debt financing and attain profitable operations.
−Removed: Additionally, the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused significant disruptions
−Removed: to the global financial markets which could impact the Company’s operations and its ability to raise additional capital.
−Removed: /s/ Gumbiner Savett
−Removed: We have served as the
−Removed: Company's auditor since 2011
+Added: We reviewed documents from current and potential future customers for evidence of future recoverability.
Santa Monica, California
March 31, 2022
−Removed: Technologies Corporation and Subsidiary
−Removed: Balance Sheets
−Removed: Current Assets:
−Removed: and cash equivalents
−Removed: expenses and other assets
+Added: We have served as the Company's auditor since 2011.
+Added: To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation and Subsidiary
+Added: Opinions on the Financial Statements
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of ClearSign Technologies Corporation and subsidiary (the "Company") as of December 31, 2020, and the related consolidated statements of operations, equity, and cash flows, for the year ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements").
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for year ended December 31, 2020 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Basis for Opinion
+Added: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's consolidated financial statements based on our audit.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
+Added: Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: As more fully described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company has incurred significant operating losses and negative operating cash flows since its inception.
+Added: The Company’s continued operations are dependent upon its ability to raise additional funds through equity or debt financing and attain profitable operations.
+Added: Additionally, the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused significant disruptions to the global financial markets which could impact the Company’s operations and its ability to raise additional capital.
+Added: /s/ Gumbiner Savett Inc.
+Added: Santa Monica, California
+Added: March 31, 2021
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheets
+Added: (in thousands, except share and per share data)
Current Assets:
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents
+Added: Accounts Receivable, net
+Added: Contract assets
+Added: Prepaid expenses and other assets
+Added: Total current assets
Fixed assets, net
−Removed: Patents and other intangible
−Removed: Current Liabilities:
−Removed: payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: portion of lease liabilities
−Removed: compensation and taxes
+Added: Patents and other intangible assets, net
+Added: LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current Liabilities:
+Added: Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
+Added: Current portion of lease liabilities
+Added: Accrued compensation and related taxes
+Added: Contract liabilities
+Added: Total current liabilities
Long Term Liabilities:
−Removed: term lease liabilities
−Removed: protection program loan
+Added: Long term lease liabilities
+Added: Payroll protection program loan
+Added: Total liabilities
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders’ Equity:
−Removed: stock, $0.0001 par value, zero shares issued and outstanding
−Removed: stock, $0.0001 par value, 30,077,436 and 26,707,261 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2020 and December 31,
−Removed: 2019, respectively
−Removed: paid-in capital
−Removed: (74,874,000 )
−Removed: (67,990,000 )
−Removed: stockholders' equity
−Removed: Noncontrolling
−Removed: Liabilities and Equity
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Technologies Corporation and Subsidiary
−Removed: Statements of Operations
+Added: Preferred stock, $ 0.0001 par value, zero shares issued and outstanding
+Added: Common stock, $ 0.0001 par value, 31,581,666 and 30,077,436 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively
+Added: Additional paid-in capital
+Added: Accumulated other comprehensive income
+Added: Accumulated deficit
+Added: Total ClearSign Technologies Corporation stockholders' equity
+Added: Noncontrolling Interest
+Added: Total Liabilities and Equity
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
+Added: (in thousands, except share and per share data)
+Added: For the Year Ended
Cost of goods sold
−Removed: including warranty adjustment (see note 5)
Operating expenses:
−Removed: and development, net of grants
−Removed: and administrative
−Removed: operating expenses
+Added: Research and development, net of grants
+Added: General and administrative
+Added: Total operating expenses
Loss from operations
−Removed: Other income:
−Removed: Net loss attributed to non-controlling
−Removed: Net loss attributed to common
−Removed: $ (6,884,000 )
−Removed: $ (8,479,000 )
−Removed: Net loss per share - basic and
−Removed: fully diluted
−Removed: Weighted average number of shares
−Removed: outstanding - basic and fully diluted
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Other income, net
+Added: Interest income
+Added: Net loss attributed to non-controlling interest
+Added: Net loss attributed to ClearSign Technologies Corporation common stockholders
+Added: Net loss per share - basic and fully diluted
+Added: Weighted average number of shares outstanding - basic and fully diluted
+Added: Comprehensive loss
+Added: Change in foreign currency translation
+Added: Comprehensive loss
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation
+Added: Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,2021 and 2020
+Added: Total ClearSign
+Added: Technologies Corp.
+Added: (in thousands)
+Added: Comprehensive
Stockholders’
Noncontrolling
+Added: Paid-In Capital
Balances at December 31, 2020
−Removed: $ (67,990,000 )
−Removed: Shares issued for services ($1.03 per share)
+Added: Shares issued through use of At The Market issuance ( $ 5.03 average per share)
Exercised Options ($ 3.80 per share)
1 unchanged sentence
Exercised Options ($ 2.93 per share)
−Removed: Secondary Offering ($2.00 per share)
−Removed: Shares issued for services ($2.33 per share)
Exercised Options ($ 1.90 per share)
−Removed: Fair value of stock options issued
−Removed: in payment of accrued compensation
−Removed: Fair value of stock options issued
−Removed: for board service
+Added: Exercised Options ($ 1.85 per share)
+Added: Exercised Options ($ 1.21 per share)
+Added: Exercised Options ($ 0.98 per share)
+Added: Exercised Options ($ 0.89 per share)
+Added: Exercised Warrants ($ 1.80 per share)
+Added: Shares issued for services ($ 2.33 per share)
+Added: Shares issued for services ($ 1.93 per share)
+Added: Fair value of stock options issued in payment of accrued compensation
+Added: Fair value of stock options issued for board service
Share based compensation
+Added: Foreign-Exchange Translation Adjustment
Balances at December 31, 2021
−Removed: (74,874,000 )
+Added: Total ClearSign
+Added: Technologies Corp.
+Added: Comprehensive
Stockholders’
Noncontrolling
+Added: Paid-In Capital
Balances at December 31, 2019
−Removed: $ (59,511,000 )
+Added: Secondary Offering ($ 2.00 per share)
Shares issued for services ($ 2.33 per share)
Shares issued for services ($ 1.03 per share)
−Removed: Fair value of stock options issued
−Removed: in payment of accrued compensation
−Removed: Fair value of stock options issued
−Removed: for board service
+Added: Exercised Options ($ 1.90 per share)
+Added: Exercised Options ($ .89 per share)
+Added: Exercised Options ($ 1.00 per share)
+Added: Exercised Options ($ 0.72 per share)
+Added: Fair value of stock options issued in payment of accrued compensation
Share based compensation
−Removed: Fair Value of stock award
+Added: Fair value of stock options issued for board service
Balances at December 31, 2020
−Removed: (67,990,000 )
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
−Removed: condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Technologies Corporation and Subsidiary
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
−Removed: the Years Ended December 31,
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation
+Added: Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
+Added: (in thousands)
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
Cash flows from operating activities:
−Removed: $ (6,886,000 )
−Removed: $ (8,482,000 )
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net loss
−Removed: to net cash used in operating activities:
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Common stock issued for services
1 unchanged sentence
Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Abandonment and impairment of
−Removed: capitalized patent costs
−Removed: Change in operating assets and
+Added: Abandonment and impairment
+Added: Gain on forgiveness of Payroll Protection Program Loan and interest
+Added: Change in operating assets and liabilities:
Contract assets
+Added: Accounts receivable
Prepaid expenses and other assets
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: Accrued compensation and taxes
+Added: Accrued compensation and related taxes
Contract liabilities
−Removed: Net cash used
−Removed: in operating activities
+Added: Net cash used in operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities:
Acquisition of fixed assets
−Removed: Disbursements for patents and
−Removed: other intangible assets
−Removed: of short term treasury bills
−Removed: Net cash (used
−Removed: in) provided by investing activities
+Added: Disbursements for patents and other intangible assets
+Added: Net cash used in investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities:
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance of common
−Removed: stock, net of offering costs
−Removed: Proceeds from exercise of stock
−Removed: from Payroll Protection Program loan
−Removed: Net cash provided
−Removed: by financing activities
−Removed: Net increase (decrease) cash and cash
−Removed: Cash and cash
−Removed: equivalents, beginning of period
−Removed: Cash and cash
−Removed: equivalents, end of period
−Removed: Supplemental disclosure of non-cash operating activities:
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company
−Removed: issued stock options to purchase a total of 444,161 shares of common stock to its officers and employees in satisfaction of
−Removed: $205,000 of accrued compensation at December 31, 2019.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company
−Removed: issued stock options to purchase a total of 159,100 shares of common stock to certain of its officers and employees in satisfaction
−Removed: of $100,000 of accrued compensation at December 31, 2018.
−Removed: The accompanying notes
−Removed: are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: ClearSign Technologies
−Removed: Corporation and Subsidiary
−Removed: to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Note 1 –
−Removed: Organization and Description of Business
−Removed: Technologies Corporation (ClearSign or the Company) designs and develops products and technologies
−Removed: for the purpose of improving key performance characteristics of industrial and commercial systems, including operational performance,
−Removed: energy efficiency, emission reduction, safety and overall cost-effectiveness.
−Removed: Our patented technologies, embedded in established OEM
−Removed: products as ClearSign Core™, and ClearSign Eye™
−Removed: and other sensing configurations, enhance the performance of combustion
−Removed: systems and fuel safety systems in a broad range of markets, including the energy (upstream oil production and down-stream refining),
−Removed: commercial/industrial boiler, chemical, petrochemical, transport and power industries.
−Removed: The Company’s primary technology is its
−Removed: ClearSign Core technology, which achieves very low emissions without the need of external flue gas recirculation, selective catalytic
−Removed: reduction, or higher excess air operation.
−Removed: The Company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was incorporated in the state
−Removed: of Washington in 2008.
−Removed: On July 28, 2017, the Company incorporated a subsidiary, ClearSign Asia Limited, in Hong Kong to represent
−Removed: the Company’s business and technological interests throughout Asia.
−Removed: Through ClearSign Asia Limited, the Company has established
−Removed: a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) in China –
−Removed: ClearSign Combustion (Beijing) Environmental Technologies Co., LTD.
−Removed: Unless otherwise stated or the context
−Removed: otherwise requires, the terms ClearSign and the Company refer to ClearSign Technologies Corporation and its subsidiary, ClearSign Asia
−Removed: The Company’s technologies are currently in field development
−Removed: and have generated nominal revenues from operations to date to meet operating expenses.
−Removed: In order to generate meaningful revenues, the
−Removed: technologies must be fully developed, gain market recognition and acceptance, and develop a critical level of successful sales and product
−Removed: installations.
−Removed: The Company has historically financed its operations primarily through issuances of equity securities, including $4.8 million
−Removed: in proceeds, net of offering costs, from a stock offering completed on August 24, 2020 and $1.3 million in proceeds, net of offering costs,
−Removed: from a stock offering completed on September 30, 2020.
−Removed: Subsequent to December 31, 2020, the Company raised $3.5 million from the issuance
−Removed: of 750,000 shares of common stock at prices ranging from $4.03 to $5.50 per share through an At The Market (ATM) facility as of March
−Removed: The Company has incurred losses since its inception totaling $74,874,000 and expects to experience operating losses and negative
−Removed: cash flows for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: Additionally, the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused significant disruptions to the global markets
−Removed: which could impact the Company’s ability to raise additional capital.
−Removed: Based on the Company’s current plans, it has sufficient
−Removed: funds to continue to support its operations for at least twelve months from the date of issuance of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In order to continue business operations beyond twelve months from the date of issuance of these consolidated financial statements, the
−Removed: Company currently anticipates that it will need to raise additional capital.
−Removed: Management believes that the successful growth and operation
−Removed: of the Company’s business is dependent upon its ability to obtain adequate sources of funding through co-development agreements,
−Removed: strategic partnering agreements, or equity or debt financing to adequately support research and development efforts, protect intellectual
−Removed: property, form relationships with strategic partners, and provide for working capital and general corporate purposes.
−Removed: There can be no
−Removed: assurance that the Company will be successful in achieving its long-term plans as set forth above, or that such plans, if consummated,
−Removed: will result in profitable operations or enable the Company to continue in the long-term as a going concern.
−Removed: Note 2 –
−Removed: Summary of Significant
−Removed: Accounting Policies
−Removed: Principles of
−Removed: Consolidation
−Removed: The accompanying
−Removed: consolidated financial statements include the accounts of ClearSign and its subsidiary.
−Removed: Intercompany balances and transactions have been
−Removed: eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net of offering costs
+Added: Proceeds from exercise of stock options
+Added: Proceeds from Payroll Protection Program loan
+Added: Net cash provided by financing activities
+Added: Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents:
+Added: Net increase (decrease) cash and cash equivalents
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents, end of year
+Added: Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
+Added: Officer and employee stock awards for prior year accrued compensation
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Note 1 – Organization and Description of Business
+Added: ClearSign Technologies Corporation (“ClearSign” or the “Company”) designs and develops products and technologies that have been shown to significantly improve key performance characteristics of industrial and commercial systems, including operational performance, energy efficiency, emission reduction, safety, and overall cost-effectiveness.
+Added: Our patented technologies are designed to be embedded in established OEM products as ClearSign Core™ and ClearSign Eye™ and other sensing configurations in order to enhance the performance of combustion systems and fuel safety systems in a broad range of markets.
+Added: These markets include, the energy (upstream oil production and down-stream refining), commercial/industrial boiler, chemical, petrochemical, transport and power industries.
+Added: The Company’s primary technology is its ClearSign Core technology, which achieves very low emissions without the need of external flue gas recirculation, selective catalytic reduction, or higher excess air operation.
+Added: The Company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was incorporated in the State of Washington in 2008.
+Added: On July 28, 2017, the Company incorporated a subsidiary, ClearSign Asia Limited, in Hong Kong to represent the Company’s business and technological interests throughout Asia.
+Added: Through ClearSign Asia Limited, the Company has established a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) in China – ClearSign Combustion (Beijing) Environmental Technologies Co., LTD.
+Added: Unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, the terms ClearSign and the Company refer to ClearSign Technologies Corporation and its subsidiary, ClearSign Asia Limited.
+Added: The Company's financial statements have been presented on the basis that it is a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.
+Added: The Company’s technologies are currently in field development, but with nominal fully operational commercial installations, and have generated nominal revenues from operations to date to meet operating expenses.
+Added: In order to generate meaningful revenues, the technologies must be fully developed, gain market recognition and acceptance, and develop a critical level of successful sales and product installations.
+Added: The Company has historically financed its operations primarily through issuances of equity securities including $ 5.5 million in gross proceeds raised from its At-The-Market program (ATM) during the year ended December 31, 2021, in which the Company issued a total of 1,093 thousand shares of common stock at an average price of $ 5.03 per share.
+Added: Costs associated with the ATM program totaled approximately $ 190 thousand and the Company received net cash proceeds approximating $ 5.3 million.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company completed stock offerings on August 24 and September 30, 2020, where it received $ 4.8 million in proceeds, net of offering costs, and $ 1.3 million in proceeds, net of offering costs, respectively, and issued a total of 3,242 thousand shares of common stock at an average price of $ 2.00 per share.
+Added: The Company has incurred losses since its inception totaling $ 82.8 million and expects to experience operating losses and negative cash flows for the foreseeable future.
+Added: Management believes that the successful growth and operation of the Company’s business is dependent upon its ability to obtain adequate sources of funding through co-development agreements, strategic partnering agreements, or equity or debt financing to adequately support product commercialization efforts, protect intellectual property, form relationships with strategic partners, and provide for working capital and general corporate purposes.
+Added: There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in achieving its long-term plans as set forth above, or that such plans, if consummated, will result in profitable operations or enable the Company to continue in the long-term as a going concern.
+Added: Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
+Added: Basis of Presentation
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of ClearSign and its subsidiary.
+Added: Intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: In the opinion of management, these consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring and other adjustments necessary for a fair presentation.
Use of Estimates
−Removed: The preparation of financial statements
−Removed: in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make certain estimates
−Removed: and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the
−Removed: date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
−Removed: Actual results could
−Removed: differ from those estimates.
+Added: The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Revenue Recognition and Cost of Sales
−Removed: The Company recognizes revenue and related
−Removed: cost of goods sold in accordance with FASB ASC 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606).
−Removed: Revenues and cost of goods
−Removed: sold are recognized once the goods or services are delivered to the customer’s control or non-refundable performance obligations
−Removed: are satisfied.
−Removed: The Company’s contracts with customers generally have performance obligations and a schedule of non-refundable cancellation
+Added: The Company recognizes revenue and related cost of goods sold in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606).
+Added: When applying ASC 606, the Company performs the following five steps:
+Added: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer;
+Added: (ii) identify the promises and performance obligations in the contract;
+Added: (iii) determine the transaction price;
+Added: (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract;
+Added: and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the performance obligations are satisfied.
+Added: Revenues and cost of goods sold are recognized once the goods or services are delivered to the customer’s control or non-refundable performance obligations are satisfied.
+Added: The Company’s contracts with customers generally have performance obligations and a schedule of non-refundable cancellation obligations.
The contracts generally will be fully performed upon delivery of certain drawings or equipment.
−Removed: Revenue related to the contracts
−Removed: is recognized in accordance with ASC 606 in accordance with the non-refundable performance obligations which are laid out in each sales
−Removed: The Company’s contracts generally
−Removed: include progress payments from the customer upon completion of defined milestones.
−Removed: As these payments are received, they are offset against
−Removed: accumulated project costs and recorded as either contract assets or contract liabilities.
−Removed: Upon completion of the performance obligations
−Removed: the projects can be recorded as revenue.
−Removed: The Company's contracts with customers
−Removed: contain no variable considerations or incentives or discounts that would cause revenue to be allocated or adjusted over time.
−Removed: no separate methods of evaluating the contracts other than consideration of the price at achievement of the performance objectives was
−Removed: used in satisfying the review requirements of ASC 606.
−Removed: Contract Acquisition Costs and Practical
−Removed: For contracts that have a duration of
−Removed: less than one year, the Company follows ASC 606, Narrow Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients , and expenses those costs
−Removed: when incurred;
−Removed: for contracts with a life exceeding one year, the Company records those costs when performance obligations related to
−Removed: the contract are completed.
+Added: Revenue related to the contracts is recognized following the completion of non-refundable performance obligations as defined in the contract.
+Added: The Company’s contracts generally include progress payments from the customer upon completion of defined milestones.
+Added: As these payments are received, they are offset against accumulated project costs and recorded as either contract assets or contract liabilities.
+Added: Upon completion of the performance obligations and collectability is determined, revenue is recorded.
+Added: For any contract that is expected to incur costs in excess of the contract price, the Company accrues the estimated loss in full in the period such determination is made.
+Added: Contract Acquisition Costs and Practical Expedients
+Added: For contracts that have a duration of less than one year, the Company follows ASC 606, Narrow Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients , and expenses those costs when incurred;
+Added: for contracts with a life exceeding one year, the Company records those costs when performance obligations related to the contract are completed.
The Company generally expenses sales commissions when earned.
−Removed: The Company records those costs within general
−Removed: and administrative expenses.
+Added: The Company amortizes those costs within general and administrative expenses over the life of the contract.
Product Warranties
−Removed: The Company warrants all installed products
−Removed: against defects in materials and workmanship for a period specified in each contract by replacing failed parts.
−Removed: Accruals for product
−Removed: warranties are based on historical warranty experience and current product performance trends, and are recorded as a component of cost
−Removed: of sales at the time revenue is recognized.
−Removed: The warranty liabilities are reduced by material and labor costs used to replace parts over
−Removed: the warranty period in the periods in which the costs are incurred.
−Removed: The Company periodically assesses the adequacy of its recorded warranty
−Removed: liabilities and adjusts the amounts as necessary, and such adjustments could be material in the future if estimates differ significantly
−Removed: from actual warranty expense.
+Added: The Company warrants all installed products against defects in materials and workmanship for a period specified in each contract by replacing failed parts.
+Added: Accruals for product warranties are based on historical or expected warranty experience and current product performance trends and are recorded as a component of cost of sales at the time revenue is recognized.
+Added: The warranty liabilities are reduced by material and labor costs used to replace parts over the warranty period in the periods in which the costs are incurred.
+Added: The Company periodically assesses the adequacy of its recorded warranty liabilities and adjusts the amounts as necessary, and such adjustments could be material in the future if estimates differ significantly from actual warranty expense.
The warranty liabilities are included in accrued liabilities in the balance sheets.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Highly liquid investments purchased
−Removed: with an original maturity of three months or less are considered cash equivalents.
−Removed: Cash is maintained with a commercial bank where accounts
−Removed: are generally guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation up to $250,000.
−Removed: The Company’s deposits may at times exceed
−Removed: The Company also maintains a cash balance in China which is insured up to $70,000 (500,000RMB).
−Removed: The Company has not experienced
−Removed: losses in such accounts and believes it is not exposed to any significant credit risk on cash and cash equivalents.
−Removed: Accounts Receivable and Allowance
−Removed: for Doubtful Accounts
−Removed: Accounts receivable are recorded at
−Removed: the invoiced amount.
−Removed: An allowance for doubtful accounts is established, as necessary, based on past experience and other factors which,
−Removed: in management’s judgment, deserve current recognition in estimating bad debts.
−Removed: The determination of the collectability of amounts
−Removed: due from customer accounts requires the Company to make judgments regarding future events and trends.
−Removed: Allowances for doubtful accounts
−Removed: are determined based on assessing the Company’s portfolio on an individual customer and on an overall basis.
−Removed: This process consists
−Removed: of a review of historical collection experience, current aging status of the customer accounts, and the financial condition of the Company’s
−Removed: Based on a review of these factors, the Company may establish or adjust the allowance for specific customers and the accounts
−Removed: receivable portfolio as a whole.
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on deposit and high-quality, short-term money market instruments with an original maturity of three months or less.
+Added: Cash equivalents, which consist of short-term US treasury bills, are based on quoted market prices, a Level 1 fair value measure.
+Added: Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
+Added: Accounts receivables are recorded at the contractual invoiced amount.
+Added: An allowance for doubtful accounts is established, as necessary, based on past experience and management’s judgment.
+Added: The determination of the collectability of amounts due from customers require the Company to make judgments regarding future events and trends.
+Added: Allowances for doubtful accounts are determined based on assessing the Company’s portfolio on an individual customer and on an overall basis.
+Added: This process consists of a review of historical collection experience, current aging status of the customer accounts, and the financial condition of the Company’s customers.
+Added: on a review of these factors, the Company may establish or adjust the allowance for specific customers and the accounts receivable portfolio as a whole.
Fixed Assets and Leases
Fixed assets are recorded at cost.
−Removed: are recorded in accordance with FASB ASC 842, Leases .
−Removed: For those leases with a term greater than one year, the Company recognizes
−Removed: on the balance sheet at the time of lease inception or modification a right-of-use asset and a lease liability, initially measured at
−Removed: the present value of the lease payments.
+Added: Leases are recorded in accordance with FASB ASC 842, Leases .
+Added: For those leases with a term greater than one year, the Company recognizes a right-of-use asset and a lease liability measured at the present value of the lease payments at the time of the lease inception or modification.
Lease costs are recognized in the income statement over the lease term on a straight-line basis.
−Removed: Operating leases with a term of 1 year or less are recognized on a straight line basis over the term.
−Removed: Depreciation is computed using
−Removed: the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets.
−Removed: Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the life
−Removed: of the lease or their useful life, whichever is shorter.
−Removed: All other fixed assets are depreciated over two to four years.
−Removed: Maintenance and
−Removed: repairs are expensed as incurred.
+Added: Leases with a term of 1 year or less are considered short term leases with rent expense recognized over the lease term.
+Added: Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective lease assets.
+Added: Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the life of the lease or their useful life, whichever is shorter.
+Added: All other fixed assets are depreciated over three to four years .
+Added: Maintenance and repairs are expensed as incurred.
Patents and Trademarks
−Removed: Patents and trademarks are recorded at cost, less accumulated amortization.
+Added: Third-party expenses related to patents and trademarks are recorded at cost, less accumulated amortization.
Amortization is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets once they are awarded.
−Removed: Patent application
−Removed: costs are deferred pending the outcome of patent applications.
−Removed: Costs associated with unsuccessful patent applications and abandoned intellectual
−Removed: property are expensed when determined to have no recoverable value.
−Removed: The Company evaluates the potential alternative uses of all intangible
−Removed: assets, as well as the recoverability of the carrying values of intangible assets, on a recurring basis.
+Added: Patent application costs are deferred pending the outcome of patent and trademark applications.
+Added: Costs associated with unsuccessful patent applications and abandoned intellectual property are expensed when determined to have no continuing value in current business activity.
+Added: We evaluate the recoverability of the carrying values of intangible assets on a recurring basis.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
−Removed: The Company tests long-lived assets,
−Removed: consisting of fixed assets, patents and other intangible assets, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate
−Removed: that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable through the estimated undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the
−Removed: use and eventual disposition of the assets.
−Removed: In that event, a loss is recognized based on the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds
−Removed: the fair value of the long-lived assets.
−Removed: Fair value is determined based on the present value of estimated expected cash flows using a
−Removed: discount rate commensurate with the risks involved, quoted market prices, or appraised values depending upon the nature of the assets.
−Removed: Loss on long-lived assets to be disposed of is determined in a similar manner, except that fair values are reduced for the cost of disposal.
+Added: The Company tests long-lived assets, consisting of fixed assets, patents, and other intangible assets, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable through the estimated undiscounted cash flows expected from the use and eventual disposition of the assets.
+Added: In the event an asset is not fully recoverable a loss is recognized based on the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the long-lived assets.
+Added: Fair value is determined based on the present value of estimated expected cash flows using a discount rate commensurate with the risks involved, quoted market prices, or appraised values depending upon the nature of the assets.
+Added: Losses on long-lived assets to be disposed of is determined in a similar manner, except those fair values are reduced for the cost of disposal.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
−Removed: Fair value is the price that would be
−Removed: received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.
−Removed: Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are categorized based on whether or not the inputs are observable in the market and the
−Removed: degree that the inputs are observable.
−Removed: The categorization of financial assets and liabilities within the valuation hierarchy is based
−Removed: upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
−Removed: The three levels of inputs used to establish fair value
−Removed: are the following:
−Removed: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
−Removed: Level 2 –
−Removed: Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets
−Removed: or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable
−Removed: market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities;
−Removed: Level 3 –
−Removed: Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value
−Removed: of the assets or liabilities.
−Removed: The Company's financial instruments primarily consist of cash and cash
−Removed: equivalents, accounts payable and accrued expenses.
−Removed: As of the balance sheet dates, the estimated fair values of the financial instruments
−Removed: were not materially different from their carrying values as presented on the balance sheets.
−Removed: This is primarily attributable to the short-term
−Removed: maturities of these instruments.
−Removed: The Company did not identify any other non-recurring assets and liabilities
−Removed: that are required to be presented in the balance sheets at fair value.
+Added: Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.
+Added: Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are categorized based on whether or not the inputs are observable in the market and the degree that the inputs are observable.
+Added: The categorization of financial assets and liabilities within the valuation hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
+Added: The three levels of inputs used to establish fair value are the following:
+Added: ● Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
+Added: ● Level 2 – Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities;
+Added: ● Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments primarily consist of cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses and note payable.
+Added: As of the balance sheet dates, the estimated fair values of the financial instruments were not materially different from their carrying values as presented on the balance sheets.
+Added: This is primarily attributable to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
+Added: The Company did not identify any other non-recurring assets and liabilities that are required to be presented in the balance sheets at fair value.
Research and Development
The cost of research and development is expensed as incurred.
−Removed: and development costs consist of salaries, benefits, share based compensation, consulting fees, rent, utilities, depreciation, and consumables.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company received $108,000
−Removed: to partially fund specific research and development activity relating to its ECC technology.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020,
−Removed: the Company received $40,000 to partially fund specific engineering activity relating to the development of burners for a Super Major.
−Removed: Additionally, the Company received $50,000 to partially fund the engineering and installation of a product for an air quality demonstration
−Removed: Since these funds were provided without expectation of reciprocation, other than the notification of research results, the funds
−Removed: received were offset against the related research and development costs incurred.
−Removed: The Company accounts for income taxes using an asset and liability
−Removed: approach which allows for the recognition and measurement of deferred tax assets based upon the likelihood of realization of tax benefits
−Removed: in future years.
−Removed: Under the asset and liability approach, deferred taxes are provided for the net tax effects of temporary differences
−Removed: between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.
−Removed: A valuation allowance is provided for deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not these items will either expire before the Company
−Removed: is able to realize their benefits, or that future deductibility is uncertain.
−Removed: Tax benefits from an uncertain tax position are recognized
−Removed: only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities based on the technical
−Removed: merits of the position.
−Removed: The tax benefits recognized in the consolidated financial statements from such a position are measured based on
−Removed: the largest benefit that has a greater than 50 percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate resolution.
+Added: Research and development costs consist of salaries, benefits, share based compensation, consumables, and consulting fees, including costs to develop and test prototype equipment and parts.
+Added: Research and development costs have been offset by funds received from strategic partners in cost sharing, collaborative projects.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company received $ 44 thousand from such arrangements and during the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company received $ 40 thousand to partially fund specific engineering activity relating to the development of burners for a Super Major refinery company and $ 50 thousand to partially fund the engineering and installation of a product for an air quality demonstration project.
+Added: Since these funds were provided without expectation of reciprocation, other than the notification of research results, the funds received were offset against the related research and development costs incurred.
+Added: The Company accounts for income taxes using an asset and liability approach which allows for the recognition and measurement of deferred tax assets based upon the likelihood of realization of tax benefits in future years.
+Added: Under the asset and liability approach, deferred taxes are provided for the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.
+Added: A valuation allowance is provided for deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not the Company would not be able to realize their benefits, or that future deductibility is uncertain.
+Added: Tax benefits are recognized only if it is more likely than not that the tax benefits will be utilized in the foreseeable future.
Stock-Based Compensation
−Removed: The costs of all employee stock options, as well as other equity-based
−Removed: compensation arrangements, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements based on the estimated fair value of the awards on the
−Removed: That cost is recognized over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award.
−Removed: Stock compensation for stock granted to non-employees is determined as the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value
−Removed: of equity instruments issued, whichever is more reliably measured.
+Added: The costs of all employee stock options, as well as other equity-based compensation arrangements, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements based on the estimated fair value of the awards on the grant date.
+Added: That cost is recognized over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award, or in the case of performance options, expense is recognized upon completion of a milestone as defined in the grant agreement.
+Added: Stock-based compensation for stock grants to non-employees is determined as the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of equity instruments issued, whichever is more reliably measured.
Foreign Operations
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements as of December 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019 include assets amounting to approximately $103,000 and $151,000, respectively, relating to operations of the Company in
−Removed: It is always possible that unanticipated events in foreign countries could disrupt the Company’s operations, and since the
−Removed: first quarter of 2020 this has been and currently continues to be the case with the effects of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 include assets amounting to approximately $ 274 thousand and $ 103 thousand, respectively, relating to operations of the Company in China.
+Added: The Beijing registered capital requirement is $ 350 thousand, which is required to be paid by 2027.
+Added: It is always possible that unanticipated events in foreign countries could disrupt the Company’s operations, and since the first quarter of 2020 this has been and currently continues to be the case with the effects of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Foreign Currency
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The Company remeasures the transactions denominated in Chinese Yuan at the average exchange rate in effect during the period.
−Removed: of each reporting period, the Company remeasures ClearSign Asia Limited’s monetary assets and liabilities to the U.S.
−Removed: exchange rates in effect at the end of the reporting period.
−Removed: The Company remeasures its non-monetary assets and liabilities at historical
−Removed: exchange rates.
−Removed: The Company records gains and losses related to remeasurement in other income (expense), net in the consolidated statements
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: Foreign currency exchange gain (loss) has not been significant in any period presented and the Company has not undertaken
−Removed: any hedging transactions related to foreign currency exposure.
+Added: At the end of each reporting period, the Company remeasures ClearSign Asia Limited’s monetary assets and liabilities to the U.S.
+Added: dollar using exchange rates in effect at the end of the reporting period.
+Added: The Company remeasures its non-monetary assets and liabilities at historical exchange rates.
+Added: The Company records gains and losses related to remeasurement in other income, net in the consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: Foreign currency exchange gain (loss) has not been significant in any period presented and the Company has not undertaken any hedging transactions related to foreign currency exposure.
Noncontrolling Interest
−Removed: The subsidiary of the Company has a minority shareholder
−Removed: representing an ownership interest of 1.00% at December 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: The Company accounts for this noncontrolling interest
−Removed: pursuant to ASC 810-10-65 whereby gains and losses in a subsidiary with a noncontrolling interest are allocated to the noncontrolling
−Removed: interest based on the ownership percentage of the noncontrolling interest, even if that allocation results in a deficit noncontrolling
−Removed: interest balance.
+Added: The subsidiary of the Company has a minority shareholder representing an ownership interest of 1.00 % at December 31, 2021 and 2020.
+Added: The Company accounts for this noncontrolling interest pursuant to ASC 810-10-65 whereby gains and losses in a subsidiary with a noncontrolling interest are allocated to the noncontrolling interest based on the ownership percentage of the noncontrolling interest, even if that allocation results in a deficit noncontrolling interest balance.
Net Loss per Common Share
−Removed: Basic loss per share is computed by dividing loss available to common
−Removed: stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding.
−Removed: Diluted loss per share is computed similar to basic loss per
−Removed: share except that the denominator is increased to include additional common shares available upon exercise of stock options and warrants
−Removed: using the treasury stock method, except for periods for which no common share equivalents are included because their effect would be anti-dilutive.
−Removed: At December 31, 2020 and 2019, potentially dilutive shares outstanding amounted to 2,777,119 and 2,211,058, respectively.
−Removed: Recently Adopted Accounting
−Removed: Pronouncements
−Removed: November 2018 FASB issued ASU 2018-18, Topic 808 Collaborative Arrangements.
−Removed: The amendments in this update make targeted
−Removed: improvements to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for collaborative arrangements as follows:
−Removed: (1) clarify that certain
−Removed: transactions between collaborative arrangement participants should be accounted for as revenue under Topic 606 when the collaborative
−Removed: arrangement participant is a customer in the context of a unit of account.
−Removed: In those situations, all the guidance in Topic 606 should be
−Removed: applied, including recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure requirements;
−Removed: (2) add unit-of-account guidance in Topic
−Removed: 808 to align with the guidance in Topic 606 (that is, a distinct good or service) when an entity is assessing whether the collaborative
−Removed: arrangement or a part of the arrangement is within the scope of Topic 606;
−Removed: (3) require that in a transaction with a collaborative
−Removed: arrangement participant that is not directly related to sales to third parties, presenting the transaction together with revenue recognized
−Removed: under Topic 606 is precluded if the collaborative arrangement participant is not a customer.
−Removed: public business entities, the amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim
−Removed: periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: The adoption of this standard did not have material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial
−Removed: Recently Issued Accounting
−Removed: Pronouncements
−Removed: Management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not
−Removed: yet effective, authoritative guidance, if currently adopted, would have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial
−Removed: statement presentation or disclosures.
−Removed: Note 3 –
−Removed: Fixed assets are summarized as follows:
+Added: Basic loss per share is computed by dividing loss available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding.
+Added: Diluted loss per share is computed similar to basic loss per share except that the denominator is increased to include additional common shares available upon exercise of stock options and warrants using the treasury stock method, except for periods for which no common share equivalents are included because their effect would be anti-dilutive.
+Added: At December 31, 2021 and 2020, potentially dilutive shares outstanding amounted to 3,076 thousand and 2,777 thousand, respectively.
+Added: Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
+Added: In June 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments (Topic 326) Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments , which requires the measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held at amortized cost.
+Added: The standard replaces the existing incurred loss impairment model with an expected loss methodology, which will result in more timely recognition of credit losses.
+Added: ASU 2016-13, and related amendments, are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022.
+Added: The Company has not completed its assessment of the standard but does not expect the adoption to have a material impact on its financial statements.
+Added: In November 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-10, Government Assistance (Topic 832):
+Added: Disclosures by Business Entities about Government Assistance , which outlines disclosure requirements for entities that receive assistance from a government body.
+Added: ASU 2021-10, and related amendments, are affective for annual reports beginning after December 15, 2021.
+Added: The Company does not expect the adoption to have a material impact on its financial statements.
+Added: Note 3 – Fixed Assets and Operating Leases
+Added: (in thousands)
Machinery and equipment
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Leasehold improvements
−Removed: Right of use asset-operating leases
Accumulated depreciation and amortization
Construction in progress
−Removed: The Company has a triple net operating lease for office and laboratory
−Removed: space in Seattle, Washington which had a term that was to end in March 2020 with rent of approximately $12,000 per month plus triple net
−Removed: operating costs.
−Removed: The Company also has a triple net operating lease for office space in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a term that was to end
−Removed: in August 2019 and monthly rent of approximately $2,000 per month plus triple net operating costs.
−Removed: Both leases include lessee renewal
−Removed: options for three years at the then prevailing market rate.
−Removed: Effective as of July and August 2019, the Company exercised the options to
−Removed: renew both the Seattle lease and the Tulsa lease for three years.
−Removed: The new term of the Seattle lease began in April 2020 and rent was abated
−Removed: for April and May 2020, although the Company was responsible for its proportionate share of expenses and taxes.
−Removed: The Company pays a monthly
−Removed: rent of approximately $13,500 through March 2021.
−Removed: The monthly rent increases on the first day of April of each succeeding year by approximately
−Removed: 3% until the end of the term in May 2023.
−Removed: The rent for the Tulsa lease was approximately $2,200 a month through August 2022 with an annual
−Removed: 2.5% increase.
−Removed: However, in January 2021, the lease was amended for a larger office space in the same building.
−Removed: The amended lease terms
−Removed: will commence in April 2021 or later, pending completion of improvements by the landlord, and expire in September 2027.
−Removed: The new rent amount
−Removed: for the Tulsa lease will be approximately $5,100 a month with an annual 2.5% increase.
−Removed: The Company had an operating lease for office space
−Removed: in Beijing, China through November 2020 with a monthly rent of approximately $6,000.
−Removed: It was renewed for an additional 18 months through
−Removed: May 2022, and is being treated as a short term lease with a monthly rent of approximately $4,500.
−Removed: Lease costs for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and
−Removed: other quantitative disclosures are as follows:
−Removed: For the year ended December 31,
−Removed: Operating lease cost
−Removed: Total lease cost
−Removed: Other information:
−Removed: Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
−Removed: Operating cash flows from operating leases
−Removed: For operating lease:
+Added: Operating lease ROU assets
+Added: Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 totaled $ 38 thousand and $ 54 thousand, respectively.
+Added: Operating Leases
+Added: The Company leases office space in Seattle Washington, Tulsa Oklahoma and Beijing China.
+Added: The Beijing lease is treated as a short-term lease.
+Added: The monthly rent for the Beijing lease is approximately $ 5 thousand.
+Added: The Seattle and Tulsa leases are classified as operating leases, with remaining terms ranging from one to six years ;
+Added: contractual language requires renewal negotiations to occur at or near termination.
+Added: These leases are normal and customary for office space, in that, contractual guarantees exist requiring the lessee to return the premises to its original functional state.
+Added: In 2021, the Company accrued an estimated cost of $ 32 thousand to prepare for the restoration of the Seattle office.
+Added: The Company plans to exit the Seattle lease on or before contract termination as part of our headquarters move from Seattle to Tulsa.
+Added: In preparation for this move, the Company entered into the Tulsa operating lease agreement in April 2021.
+Added: The Seattle and Tulsa leases contain fixed annual lease payments that increase annually, which is customary for long-term lease agreements.
+Added: Lease payments increase annually by factors that range between 2 % to 3 %.
+Added: Total monthly minimum rent is approximately $ 24 thousand.
+Added: Contractual agreements contain expiration dates ranging from less than twelve months to less than six years .
+Added: Supplemental balance sheet information related to operating leases is as follows:
+Added: (in thousands)
+Added: Right-of-use assets, net
+Added: Lease Liabilities:
+Added: Current lease liabilities
+Added: Long term lease liabilities
+Added: Total lease liabilities
+Added: Operating lease costs
Weighted average remaining lease term (in years):
Weighted average discount rate:
−Removed: Minimum future payments under the Company’s leases at December 31,
−Removed: 2020 and their application to the corresponding lease liabilities are as follows:
−Removed: Discounted lease
−Removed: liability payments
−Removed: Note 4 –
−Removed: Patents and Other Intangible Assets
+Added: Supplemental cash flow information related to leases is as follows:
+Added: For the Year Ended
+Added: Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
+Added: Operating cash flows from operating leases
+Added: Non-cash impact of new leases and lease modifications
+Added: New operating lease liabilities
+Added: Impairment of ROU assets
+Added: Minimum future payments under the Company’s lease liabilities at December 31, 2021 are as follows:
+Added: (in thousands)
+Added: At December 31, 2021, $ 63 thousand of our future minimum lese payments represented interest.
+Added: Note 4 – Patents and Other Intangible Assets
Patents and other intangible assets are summarized as follows:
+Added: (in thousands)
Patents pending
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Accumulated amortization
−Removed: Future amortization expense associated with awarded patents and registered
−Removed: trademarks as of December 31, 2020 is estimated as follows:
−Removed: In 2020 and 2019, the Company continued to reassess
−Removed: its patent portfolio in order to ensure that both the cost-effectiveness and the value created through the intellectual property portfolio
−Removed: were maximized and to focus resources on its most promising patents.
−Removed: Those patents considered to be the most beneficial were retained
−Removed: and those pending patents projected to be unnecessarily costly that could be disposed of without meaningfully degrading the quality of
−Removed: the remaining intellectual property portfolio were abandoned.
−Removed: As a result, during the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company recorded
−Removed: no impairment loss of capitalized patents costs and $733,000 during the year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Sales, Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities
−Removed: recognized no revenue during each of the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the
−Removed: Company recognized cost of goods sold of $450,000 from a project that the Company anticipates will show a loss on the sale when completed
−Removed: and a second project that was completed, but has been deemed as potentially uncollectable.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020,
−Removed: the recognized cost of goods sold was offset by recorded adjustments totaling $171,000 related to the reversal of accruals for product
−Removed: warranties that expired on seven completed projects from the years 2016 and 2017.
−Removed: The Company recorded an adjustment of $1,000 for the
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2019 related to additional warranty costs incurred for previously completed contracts.
−Removed: The Company had contract
−Removed: assets of $92,000 and $39,000 and contract liabilities of $94,000 and $50,000 at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Note 6 –
−Removed: Product Warranties
−Removed: A summary of the Company’s warranty liability activity, which
−Removed: is included in accrued liabilities in the accompanying balance sheets as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, is as follows:
+Added: Future amortization expense associated with awarded patents and registered trademarks as of December 31, 2021 is as follows:
+Added: (in thousands)
+Added: The amortization life for patents ranges between three to five years , with trademark lives remaining consistent at ten years .
+Added: The Company does not amortize patents or trademarks classified as pending.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2021, and 2020, the Company assessed its patent and trademark assets.
+Added: The Company also evaluated its strategic approach to the pursuit and protection of its intellectual property.
+Added: It is the intent of the Company to continue to define the scope of pursuing intellectual property protection to be more aligned with core technology critical to the design of product offerings.
+Added: The Company identified certain assets where the intellectual property was not directly related to the core technology within current products or was loosely affiliated with the core technology.
+Added: Based on the results of the assessment, the Company impaired $ 385 thousand of assets previously classified as pending patent costs and $ 36 thousand of assets previously classified as pending trademark costs.
+Added: This non-cash expense is reflected in the current year operating results as Research and Development and General and Administrative expenses, respectively.
+Added: For certain issued patents where the protected intellectual property was not directly aligned with current products, the Company accelerated the amortization by $ 50 thousand to reduce the financial net carrying value of capitalized patent costs and an additional $ 40 thousand in accelerated amortization to align trademark net capitalized costs with trademark registration dates.
+Added: Note 5 – Revenue, Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities
+Added: The Company recognized $ 607 thousand of revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021 and no revenues during the year ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: Revenues were generated in the current year from the completion and delivery of multi burner products and from prior year projects for which performance obligations were completed and constraints relating to collectability were eliminated.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recognized cost of goods sold of $ 1,059 thousand and $ 279 thousand, respectively.
+Added: Cost of sales during the year ended December 31, 2021 consisted of $ 433 thousand upon completion of the burner contracts and $ 712 thousand in loss related to the ExxonMobil project.
+Added: These amounts were offset by adjustments totaling $ 86 thousand related to the reversals of accruals for product warranties that had expired.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company recognized cost of goods sold of $ 450 thousand from the ExxonMobil project, which was anticipated to show a loss on the project when completed, and a second project that was completed but deemed as potentially uncollectable.
+Added: These amounts were offset by $ 171 thousand for the reversal of accruals for product warranties that expired on seven completed projects from the years 2016 and 2017.
+Added: In September of 2021, the Company received verbal notification from ExxonMobil to put on hold the testing of its ClearSign Core TM process burners to be installed at the Baytown, Texas refinery because there was insufficient time for ExxonMobil to engineer their inclusion during the targeted 2022 refinery turnaround.
+Added: The Company had contract assets of $ 39 thousand and $ 92 thousand and contract liabilities of $ 84 thousand and $ 94 thousand at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: Note 6 – Product Warranties
+Added: A summary of the Company’s warranty liability activity, which is included in accrued liabilities in the accompanying balance sheets as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, is as follows:
+Added: (in thousands)
Warranty liability, beginning of year
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Note 7 - Income Taxes
−Removed: The Company is subject to taxation in the United States of America
−Removed: (“U.S.”) and files tax returns in the U.S.
−Removed: federal jurisdiction.
−Removed: Through December 31, 2020, the Company incurred net operating
−Removed: losses for federal tax purposes of approximately $69,600,000.
−Removed: The Company experienced an “ownership change”
−Removed: within the meaning
−Removed: of Section 382(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, during April 2012.
−Removed: The ownership change will subject net operating
−Removed: loss carryforwards to an annual limitation, which may restrict the ability to use them to offset taxable income in periods following
−Removed: the ownership change.
−Removed: In general, the annual use limitation equals the aggregate value of the Company’s stock at the time of the
−Removed: ownership change multiplied by a tax-exempt interest rate specified by the Internal Revenue Service.
−Removed: The Company analyzed the available
−Removed: information to determine the amount of the annual limitation.
−Removed: Based on information available, the 2012 limitation is estimated to be
−Removed: $686,000 annually.
−Removed: The availability of the Company’s net operating loss carry forwards may be subject to further limitation if
−Removed: a change in the ownership of more than 50% occurs within any three-year period since the last ownership change.
−Removed: The net operating
−Removed: loss carry forwards generated before 2018 may be used to reduce taxable income through the years 2028 to 2037.
−Removed: Net operating loss carryforwards
−Removed: generated for year 2018 and thereafter do not expire.
−Removed: A reconciliation of the expected tax computed
−Removed: at the statutory federal income tax rate to the provision for income taxes is as follows:
+Added: The Company is subject to taxation in the United States of America (“U.S.”) and files tax returns in the U.S.
+Added: federal jurisdiction and several state jurisdictions.
+Added: Through December 31, 2021, the Company incurred net operating losses for federal tax purposes of approximately $ 76,403 thousand.
+Added: The Company experienced an “ownership change” within the meaning of Section 382(g) of the Internal Revenue Code in April 2012, subjecting net operating loss carryforwards (incurred prior to the ownership change) to an annual limitation, which may restrict the ability to use those losses to offset taxable income in periods following the ownership change.
+Added: The Company analyzed the available information to determine the amount of the annual limitation and based on that information estimated the limitation to be $ 686 thousand annually.
+Added: The net operating loss carry forwards generated before 2018 may be used to reduce taxable income through the years 2028 to 2037.
+Added: Net operating loss carryforwards generated for year 2018 and thereafter do not expire.
+Added: A reconciliation of the expected tax computed at the statutory federal income tax rate to the provision for income taxes is as follows:
Expected tax benefit at 21 %
−Removed: $ (1,446,000 )
−Removed: $ (1,781,000 )
Change in valuation allowance
Provision for income taxes
−Removed: The net deferred tax asset at December 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019 was $14,830,000 and $13,505,000, respectively.
−Removed: In assessing the potential realization of these deferred tax assets,
−Removed: management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized.
−Removed: realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the Company attaining future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary
−Removed: differences become deductible.
−Removed: At December 31, 2020 and 2019, management was unable to determine if it is more likely than not that
−Removed: the Company’s deferred tax assets will be realized and has therefore recorded an appropriate valuation allowance against deferred
−Removed: tax assets at such dates.
+Added: Due primarily to the net operating loss carryforwards, the Company has a net deferred tax asset at December 31, 2021 of $ 16,388 thousand and at December 31, 2020 of $ 14,830 thousand.
+Added: In assessing the potential realization of these deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized.
+Added: The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the Company attaining future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible.
+Added: At December 31, 2021 and 2020, management concluded that there was not sufficient positive evidence of future taxable income to determine that it is more likely than not that the Company’s deferred tax assets will be realized.
+Added: Consequently, the Company has recorded an appropriate valuation allowance against deferred tax assets at such dates.
+Added: It is management’s intent to continue maintaining a full valuation allowance on the deferred tax assets until there is sufficient evidence to support the reversal of all or some portion of these allowances.
Significant components of the deferred tax assets (liabilities), are approximately as follows:
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Valuation allowance
−Removed: (14,830,000 )
−Removed: (13,505,000 )
Net deferred tax asset
−Removed: Although the Company is not under examination,
−Removed: the tax years for 2017 and forward are subject to examination by United States tax authorities.
−Removed: The Company’s practice is to recognize interest
−Removed: and penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020, and 2019, there were no accrued interest
−Removed: or penalties related to uncertain tax positions.
−Removed: Note 8 –
+Added: Although the Company is not under examination, all tax years for which the Company incurred a net operating loss are subject to examination by United States tax authorities to the extent of the loss carried forward.
+Added: The Company’s practice is to recognize interest and penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense.
+Added: As of December 31, 2021, and 2020, there were no accrued interest or penalties related to uncertain tax positions.
+Added: Note 8 – Equity
Common Stock and Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Company is authorized to issue 62,500,000
−Removed: shares of common stock and 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock.
−Removed: Preferences, limitations, voting powers and relative rights of any preferred
−Removed: stock to be issued may be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors.
+Added: The Company is authorized to issue 62.5 million shares of common stock and 2.0 million shares of preferred stock.
+Added: Preferences, limitations, voting powers and relative rights of any preferred stock to be issued may be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors.
The Company has not issued any shares of preferred stock.
−Removed: July 2018, the Company completed a private equity offering of 5,213,543 shares of common stock at a price of $2.25 per share to ClirSPV,
−Removed: LLC (Investor).
−Removed: Gross proceeds from the offering totaled $11.7 million and net cash proceeds approximated $11.6 million.
−Removed: Purchase Agreement permitted the Investor to purchase from the Company up to an aggregate 478,854 shares of common stock at a price of
−Removed: $4 per share (Additional Purchase Right).
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the Additional Purchase Right, the Investor had the right to purchase
−Removed: shares of common stock from the Company, as the warrants previously issued to the investors by the Company in its January 25, 2017
−Removed: rights offering were exercised and the warrant shares were issued.
−Removed: These warrants have expired unexercised on January 25, 2019.
−Removed: Additional Purchase Right expired on February 1, 2019.
−Removed: The Additional Purchase Right was considered an equity instrument accounted
−Removed: for as a component of the actual price per common share paid by the Investor in the private offering.
−Removed: For basic earnings per share, unpurchased
−Removed: common shares associated with the Additional Purchase Right were treated as contingently issuable shares and were not included in basic
−Removed: earnings per share.
−Removed: The Stock Purchase Agreement also permits the Investor to participate
−Removed: in future capital raising transactions (Participation Right) on the same terms as other investors participating in such transactions.
+Added: In July 2018, the Company completed a private equity offering and executed a Stock Purchase Agreement with clirSPV, LLC which permits participation in future capital raising transactions (Participation Right) on the same terms as other investors participating in such transactions.
The Participation Right will expire on December 31, 2023.
−Removed: In no event may the Participation Right be exercised to the extent it would
−Removed: cause the Investor or any of its affiliates to beneficially own 20% or more of the Company’s then outstanding common stock or hold
−Removed: shares with 20% or more of the voting power.
−Removed: In August 2020, the Company completed an offering
−Removed: of common stock whereby 2,587,500 shares of common stock at a price of $2.00 per share were issued and sold for net cash proceeds of approximately
−Removed: $4.8 million.
−Removed: In September 2020, the Company completed
−Removed: a sale of common stock to ClirSPV under the additional purchase right whereby 654,425 shares of common stock at a price of $2.00 per share
−Removed: were issued and sold for net cash proceeds of approximately $1.3 million.
+Added: In no event may the Participation Right be exercised to the extent it would cause clirSPV, LLC or any of its affiliates to beneficially own 20 % or more of the Company’s then outstanding common stock or hold shares with 20 % or more of the voting power.
+Added: In August 2020, the Company completed an offering of common stock whereby approximately 2.6 million shares of common stock at a price of $ 2.00 per share were issued and sold for net cash proceeds of approximately $ 4.8 million.
+Added: In September 2020, the Company completed a sale of common stock to clirSPV, LLC under the 2018 Stock Purchase Agreement described above (Participation Right) whereby approximately 654 thousand shares of common stock at a price of $ 2.00 per share were issued and sold for net cash proceeds of approximately $ 1.3 million.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company issued common stock pursuant to an At-The-Market Offering Sales Agreement, dated December 23, 2020, with Virtu Americas LLC, as sales agent pursuant to which it may sell shares of common stock with an aggregate offering price of up to $ 15.0 million (ATM).
+Added: As of December 31, 2021, the Company issued approximately 1.1 million shares of common stock under the ATM program, at an average price of $ 5.03 per share.
+Added: Gross proceeds totaled approximately $ 5.5 million and net cash proceed was approximately $ 5.3 million.
Issuance of Shares of Subsidiary to Noncontrolling Interest
−Removed: In December 2019, the Company issued shares of its subsidiary
−Removed: representing a 1% ownership interest to an executive.
−Removed: The fair value of the shares at the date of the issuance was estimated to be $6,000
−Removed: and was recorded as stock based compensation expense during the year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Equity Incentive Plan
−Removed: The ClearSign Technologies Corporation 2011 Equity
−Removed: Incentive Plan (the Plan) provides for the granting of options to purchase shares of common stock, stock awards to purchase shares at
−Removed: no less than 85% of the value of the shares, and stock bonuses to officers, employees, board members, certain consultants, and advisors.
−Removed: At the Company’s Annual Meeting held on May 8, 2019, the shareholders approved an amendment to the Plan that (i) increased the number
−Removed: of shares of common stock in the reserve by 1,231,593 to a total of 4,004,214 shares of common stock, representing approximately 15% of
−Removed: the number of shares of the Company’s stock outstanding and (ii) increased the number of shares that may be issued pursuant to the
−Removed: evergreen provision, if any, to the lesser of 15% of any new shares issued by the Company during the quarter immediately prior to the
−Removed: adjustment date or such lesser amount as the Board of Directors shall determine.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors
−Removed: is authorized to administer the Plan and establish the grant terms, including the grant price, vesting period and exercise date.
−Removed: December 31, 2020, the number of shares reserved for issuance under the Plan totaled 4,505,728 shares.
−Removed: Activity under the Plan is as follows:
−Removed: Reserved but unissued shares under the Plan, beginning of year
−Removed: Increases in the number of authorized shares under the Plan
−Removed: Grants of stock options
−Removed: Stock option forfeitures
−Removed: Exercise of stock options
−Removed: Reserved but unissued shares under the Plan, end of year
+Added: In December 2019, the Company issued shares of its subsidiary representing a 1 % ownership interest to an executive.
+Added: The value assigned to this interest was $ 0 and $ 1 thousand as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: Equity Incentive Plans
+Added: On June 17, 2021, (the Effective Date) the Company's shareholders approved and the Company adopted the ClearSign Technologies Corporation 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (2021 Plan) which permits the Company to grant Incentive Stock Options, Non-statutory Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Units, and Performance Shares, to eligible participants, which includes employees, directors and consultants.
+Added: The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors is authorized to administer the 2021 Plan.
+Added: The 2021 Plan provides for an annual increase in available shares equal to the lessor of (i) 10 % of the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock issued by the Company in the prior fiscal year;
+Added: or (ii) such number provided by the Compensation Committee;
+Added: provided, however, that the total cumulative increase in the number of shares available for issuance pursuant to this automatic share increase shall not exceed 400 thousand shares of common stock.
+Added: The prior incentive plan (2011 Plan) expired January 2021 and outstanding awards from this plan were assigned to the 2021 Plan.
+Added: The total amount of carryover awards from the 2011 plan amounted to 3,381 thousand.
+Added: Any forfeiture or expiration of carryover awards will be added to the 2021 Plan.
+Added: Ending balances of the Plans are as follows:
+Added: ( in thousands )
+Added: Outstanding options and restricted stock units
+Added: Reserved but unissued shares under the Plans
+Added: Total authorized shares under the Plans
Stock Options
−Removed: In the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company made awards
−Removed: of stock options for the purchase of an aggregate 743,161 shares of common stock to its employees and directors from the Plan.
−Removed: awards, options covering 444,161 shares of common stock were awarded in lieu of cash bonuses for 2019 and the expense was recorded during
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Options covering an additional 299,000 shares of common stock have been issued as payment to the Company’s
−Removed: directors and are described below.
−Removed: The 2020 stock option awards have exercise prices at the grant date with fair values ranging from $0.54
−Removed: to $2.38 per share, contractual lives of 10 years, and that vest on award or with the performance of certain goals.
−Removed: The fair values of
−Removed: the stock options estimated on the dates of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model totaled $549,000.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company recorded
−Removed: a charge of $192,000 for a stock option for the purchase of 80,000 shares of common stock awarded in January 2021 to its Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer in lieu of a cash bonus for 2020.
−Removed: In the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company made awards of
−Removed: stock options for the purchase of an aggregate 1,328,718 shares of common stock to its employees and directors from the Plan.
−Removed: awards, options covering 159,100 shares of common stock were awarded in lieu of cash bonuses for 2018 and the expense was recorded during
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018.
−Removed: An option for the purchase of 258,618 shares of common stock was issued from the Plan to the Company’s
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer as part of options for the purchase of an aggregate 600,000 shares of common stock granted to him in conjunction
−Removed: with his recruitment and employment, as described below (see Inducement Stock Options).
−Removed: Options covering an additional 381,000 shares
−Removed: of common stock have been issued as payment to the Company’s directors and are described below.
−Removed: The remaining stock option awards
−Removed: covering 530,000 shares of common stock were granted to certain members of management.
−Removed: The 2019 stock option awards have exercise prices
−Removed: either specified at $2.25 or at the grant date fair value ranging from $0.87 to $1.21 per share, contractual lives of 10 years, and vest
−Removed: over a period of one to three years.
−Removed: The fair values of the stock options estimated on the dates of grant using the Black-Scholes option
−Removed: valuation model totaled $664,000.
−Removed: As permitted by SAB 107, due to the Company’s insufficient history
−Removed: of option activity, management utilized the simplified approach to estimate the expected term of the options, which represents the period
−Removed: of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding.
−Removed: Expected volatility was determined through the Company’s historical
−Removed: stock price volatility.
−Removed: The Company estimated the forfeiture rate at the time of grant and will revise it, if necessary, in subsequent
−Removed: periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.
−Removed: The Company recognizes compensation costs only for those equity awards that
−Removed: are expected to vest.
−Removed: The risk-free rate for periods within the contractual life of the option is based on the U.S.
−Removed: Treasury yield in
−Removed: effect at the time of grant.
+Added: Under the terms of the 2021 Plan, incentive stock options and nonstatutory stock options must have an exercise price at or above the fair market value on the date of the grant.
+Added: At the time of grant, the Company will determine the period within which the option may be exercised and will specify any conditions that must be satisfied before the option vests and may be exercised.
+Added: The Company estimates the fair value of stock options on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.
+Added: As permitted by SAB 107, management utilized the simplified approach to estimate the expected term of the options, which represents the period of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding.
+Added: Expected volatility has been determined through the Company’s historical stock price volatility.
+Added: The Company has not made an estimate of forfeitures at the time of the grant, but rather accounts for forfeitures at the time they occur.
+Added: The risk-free rate for periods within the expected life of the option is based on the U.S.
+Added: Treasury yield in effect at the time of grant.
The Company has never declared or paid dividends and has no plans to do so in the foreseeable future.
−Removed: following weighted-average assumptions were utilized in the calculation of the fair value of the stock options:
+Added: The following weighted-average assumptions were utilized in the calculation of the fair value of stock options:
Expected life
Weighted average volatility
−Removed: Forfeiture rate
Weighted average risk-free interest rate
Expected dividend rate
−Removed: A summary of the Company’s stock option activity and related
−Removed: information is as follows:
−Removed: Weighted Average Remaining Contractual
−Removed: Life (in years)
+Added: A summary of the Company’s stock option activity and changes is as follows:
+Added: ( in thousands )
Outstanding at January 1
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Exercisable at December 31
−Removed: A summary of the status of the Company’s non-vested stock options
−Removed: at December 31 and changes during the year is as follows:
−Removed: Non-vested stock options at January 1
−Removed: Forfeited/Expired/Exchanged
−Removed: Non-vested stock options at December 31
−Removed: The estimated aggregate pretax intrinsic value of the Company’s
−Removed: outstanding vested stock options at December 31, 2020 is $2,966,000.
−Removed: The intrinsic value is the difference between the Company’s
−Removed: common stock price and the option exercise prices multiplied by the number of in-the-money options.
−Removed: This amount changes based on the fair
−Removed: value of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: At December 31, 2020, there was $84,000 of total unrecognized
−Removed: compensation cost related to non-vested stock option-based compensation arrangements granted under the Plan that will be recognized over
−Removed: a remaining weighted average period of 0.7 years.
−Removed: That cost is expected to be recognized in future years as follows:
−Removed: The recognized compensation cost associated with the Plan is as follows:
−Removed: Research and development
−Removed: General and administrative
−Removed: Effect on net loss
−Removed: Effect on net loss per share
+Added: The estimated aggregate pretax intrinsic value of the Company’s outstanding vested stock options at December 31, 2021 is $ 513 thousand.
+Added: The intrinsic value is the difference between the Company’s common stock price and the option exercise prices multiplied by the number of in-the-money options.
+Added: This amount changes based on the fair value of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: At December 31, 2021, there was $ 1,725 thousand of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock option-based compensation arrangements.
+Added: Vesting criteria ranges from time-based to performance-based, the Company records costs for time-based arrangements ratably across the timeframe, whereas performance-based arrangements require management to continually evaluate predetermined goals against actual circumstances.
+Added: Restricted Stock Units
+Added: On July 28, 2021, the Company approved compensation for board service to be paid to its independent directors in restricted stock units (“RSUs”) under the 2021 Plan.
+Added: Such compensation was earned on a quarterly basis commencing with services performed in the second quarter of 2021 and continuing through the end of 2021.
+Added: The target value of compensation was approved at $ 85 thousand per quarter.
+Added: A RSU grant is to be awarded to each independent director in the beginning of the quarter in which services will be rendered, and the number of RSUs granted is to be based on the trading value of the Company's stock on the date of the award.
+Added: The vesting criteria of the RSU grants are contingent upon the occurrence of one of four future events which the Company cannot predict or control.
+Added: Accordingly, stock based compensation has not been recognized for services performed during the year ended December 31, 2021 in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification, Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation (ASC 718).
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company issued 112 thousand RSU's for services performed amounting to $ 255 thousand of unrecognized compensation.
Consultant Stock Plan
−Removed: 2013 Consultant Stock Plan (the Consultant Plan) provides for the granting of shares of common stock to consultants who provide
−Removed: services related to capital raising, investor relations, and making a market in or promoting the Company’s securities.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: officers, employees, and board members are not entitled to receive grants from the Consultant Plan.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee of the
−Removed: Board of Directors is authorized to administer the Consultant Plan and establish the grant terms.
−Removed: The number of shares reserved for issuance
−Removed: under the Consultant Plan on December 31, 2020 totaled 212,276 shares.
−Removed: The Consultant Plan provides for quarterly increases in the
−Removed: available number of authorized shares equal to the lesser of 1% of any new shares issued by the Company during the quarter immediately
−Removed: prior to the adjustment date or such lesser amount as the Board of Directors shall determine.
−Removed: The Company granted 10,000 shares of common stock in 2019, under the
−Removed: Consultant Plan to a consultant for services for the period from September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020.
−Removed: The fair value of the stock
−Removed: at the time of grant was $1.03 per share for a total value of $10,000, for which the Company recognized $8,000 for 7,500 shares and $3,000
−Removed: for 2,500 shares in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: The Company also
−Removed: granted 15,000 shares of common stock under the Consultant Plan to the same consultant for the period from September 1, 2020 through August
−Removed: The fair value of the stock at the time of grant was $2.33 per share for a total value of $35,000, for which the Company recognized
−Removed: $9,000 for 3,750 shares.
−Removed: in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The Company also granted 10,000 shares of common stock to a second
−Removed: consultant under the Consultant Plan for services performed and to be performed during the period from August 13, 2018 to August 31, 2019.
−Removed: The fair value of the stock at the time of grant was $1.44 per share for a total value of $14,000, for which the Company recognized $11,000
−Removed: for 7,500 shares in general and administrative expense on a pro-rated quarterly basis in the in the first three quarters of 2019.
−Removed: The Consultant Plan expense for 2020 and 2019 was $17,000 and $14,000,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: Reserved but unissued shares under the Consultant Plan at January 1
−Removed: Increases in the number of authorized shares under the Consultant Plan
−Removed: Reserved but unissued shares under the Consultant Plan at Period End
+Added: The 2013 Consultant Stock Plan (the Consultant Plan) provides for the granting of shares of common stock to consultants who provide services related to capital raising, investor relations, and making a market in or promoting the Company’s securities.
+Added: The Company’s officers, employees, and board members are not entitled to receive grants from the Consultant Plan.
+Added: The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors is authorized to administer the Consultant Plan and establish the grant terms.
+Added: The Consultant Plan provides for
+Added: quarterly increases in the available number of authorized shares equal to the lesser of 1 % of any new shares issued by the Company during the quarter immediately prior to the adjustment date or such lesser amount as the Board of Directors shall determine.
+Added: The Company granted 15 thousand shares of common stock under the Consultant Plan to a consultant for the period October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022.
+Added: The fair value of the stock at the time of grant was $ 1.93 per share for a total value of $ 29 thousand for which the Company has recognized expense of $ 7 thousand, for 3.7 thousand shares during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The Company granted 15 thousand shares of common stock under the Consultant Plan to the same consultant for the period September 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
+Added: The fair value of the stock at the time of grant was $ 2.33 per share for a total value of $ 35 thousand, for which the Company has recognized expense of $ 26 thousand, for 11.3 thousand shares during the year ended December 31, 2021 and recognized expense of $ 9 thousand, for 3.7 thousand shares during the year ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: The Company granted 10 thousand shares of common stock under the Consultant Plan to the same consultant for the period September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020.
+Added: The fair value of the stock at the time of grant was $ 1.03 per share for a total value of $ 10 thousand, for which the Company recognized expense of $ 8 thousand, for 7.5 thousand shares during the year ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: The Consultant Plan expense, reflected as general and administrative expense, for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 was $ 33 thousand and $ 17 thousand, respectively.
+Added: ( in thousands )
+Added: Reserved but unissued shares January 1
+Added: Increases in the number of authorized shares
+Added: Reserved but unissued shares December 31
Inducement Stock Options
−Removed: Pursuant to the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, and in compliance
−Removed: with those rules, the Company may issue equity awards, including stock options, as an inducement to an individual to accept employment
−Removed: with the Company.
−Removed: Inducement awards need not be approved by the Company’s shareholders.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2019, the Company granted options to purchase 600,000 shares of common stock as an inducement to its President and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: to accept the Company’s offer of employment.
−Removed: (See Note 11.) The stock options have exercise prices ranging from $1.16 to $2.25 per
−Removed: share, contractual lives of 10 years, and vest over 2 years.
−Removed: An option to purchase 258,618 shares was issued from the Company’s
−Removed: 2011 Equity Incentive Plan and are accounted for with the stock options described above.
−Removed: Non-qualified stock options covering the remaining
−Removed: 341,382 shares were issued from the Company’s reserve of authorized but unissued shares of common stock.
−Removed: The fair value of the non-qualified
−Removed: stock options estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model was $176,000.
−Removed: The recognized compensation
−Removed: expense associated with these awards for the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $52,000 and $111,000.
−Removed: The remaining unrecognized
−Removed: compensation expense associated with these awards is $13,000.
−Removed: The following weighted-average assumptions were utilized in the calculation
−Removed: of the fair value of the stock options:
−Removed: Expected life
−Removed: Weighted average volatility
−Removed: Forfeiture rate
−Removed: Weighted average risk-free interest rate
−Removed: Expected dividend rate
−Removed: A summary of the Company’s warrant activity and related information
−Removed: is as follows:
+Added: Pursuant to the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, and in compliance with those rules, the Company may issue equity awards, including stock options, as an inducement to an individual to accept employment with the Company.
+Added: Inducement awards need not be approved by the Company's shareholders.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company granted 341 thousand non-qualified stock options to its Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: The fair value of the non-qualified stock options estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes valuation model was $ 176 thousand.
+Added: The compensation expense recognized for these awards for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 was $ 13 thousand and $ 52 thousand.
+Added: There is no remaining unrecognized compensation expense associated with these awards, and the intrinsic value was $ 31 thousand, at December 31, 2021.
+Added: A summary of warrant activity and related information is as follows:
+Added: ( in thousands )
Outstanding at January 1
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Outstanding at December 31
−Removed: The following table summarizes the number of warrants, the weighted
−Removed: average exercise price, and weighted average life (in years) by price for both total outstanding warrants and total exercisable warrants
−Removed: at December 31, 2020:
−Removed: Total Outstanding Warrants
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: The intrinsic value of the outstanding warrants was $90,000 at December 31,
−Removed: Note 9 –
−Removed: Retirement Plan
−Removed: The Company has a defined contribution retirement plan covering all
−Removed: of its employees whereby the Company matches employee contributions up to 3% of each employee’s 2020 and 2019 earnings.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: matching contribution expense totaled $51,000 and $58,000 in 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Note 10 - The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
−Removed: On May 8, 2020, the Company obtained a loan
−Removed: in the amount of $250,832 (the “PPP loan”) from Bank of America (the “Lender”), pursuant to the Paycheck Protection
−Removed: Program (the “PPP”) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economics Security Act (the “CARES Act”) that was signed
−Removed: into law in March 2020.
−Removed: In accordance with the PPP, the Company was permitted to use the PPP loan proceeds to fund designated expenses,
−Removed: including certain payroll costs, rent, utilities and other permitted expenses.
−Removed: The PPP loan is evidenced by a promissory note, dated effective
−Removed: May 1, 2020, issued by the Company to the Lender.
−Removed: The PPP loan is unsecured with a 2-year term, matures on May 7, 2022, and
−Removed: bears interest at a rate of 1.00% per annum.
−Removed: Under the terms of the PPP, the PPP loan may be prepaid at any time prior to maturity with
−Removed: no prepayment penalties.
−Removed: In addition, up to the entire amount of principal and accrued interest may be forgiven to the extent the PPP
−Removed: loan proceeds are used for qualifying expenses as described in the CARES Act and applicable implementing guidance issued by the U.S.
−Removed: Business Administration (“SBA”) under the PPP (including that up to 75% of such loan funds are used for payroll).
−Removed: submitted an application with the SBA for forgiveness in January 2021.
−Removed: Payments under this note have been deferred by the bank until
−Removed: the forgiveness status of the loan is ascertained.
−Removed: The Company used the entire PPP loan amount for designated qualifying expenses and
−Removed: has applied for forgiveness of the loan in accordance with the terms of the PPP.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that the Company will obtain
−Removed: forgiveness of the loan in whole or in part.
−Removed: With respect to any portion of the PPP loan that is not forgiven, the loan will be subject
−Removed: to customary provisions for a loan of this type, including customary events of default relating to, among other things, payment defaults,
−Removed: breaches of the provisions of the PPP loan and cross-defaults.
−Removed: Note 11 –
−Removed: Commitments and Contingencies
−Removed: On January 28, 2019 (the “Effective
−Removed: Date”), the Company and Colin James Deller entered into an employment agreement (the “Agreement”) pursuant to which
−Removed: the Company employed Dr.
−Removed: Deller as its President until April 1, 2019, at which time Dr.
−Removed: Deller became the Company’s
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company pays Dr.
−Removed: Deller an annual salary of $350,000.
−Removed: As an inducement to
−Removed: accept employment with the Company, Dr.
−Removed: Deller was also granted an option to purchase 400,000 shares of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock at an exercise price of $1.16 per share and an option to purchase 200,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise
−Removed: price of $2.25 per share.
−Removed: Each option has a term of 10 years and will vest as follows:
−Removed: the right to purchase one-third of the shares of
−Removed: common stock subject to the option vested on the Effective Date;
−Removed: the right to purchase one-third of the vested on the first anniversary
−Removed: of the grant date;
−Removed: and the right to purchase one-third of the shares vested on the second anniversary of the grant date.
−Removed: The Company also
−Removed: agreed to pay certain expenses, not to exceed the sum of $100,000, related to Dr.
−Removed: Deller’s move from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Seattle,
−Removed: Washington, including reasonable expenses related to the sale of his home in Tulsa.
−Removed: As a temporary adjustment for the difference in the
−Removed: cost of living between Tulsa and Seattle (the “Relocation Adjustment”), for a period of four years (the “Payment Period”)
−Removed: from the Effective Date, the Company has also agreed to pay up to $6,000 a month to Dr.
−Removed: Deller for expenses related to temporary
−Removed: housing and travel to and from Tulsa to Seattle.
−Removed: Deller purchases a home in the Seattle area, the Relocation Adjustment will
−Removed: continue to be paid through the expiration of the Payment Period, although the Relocation Adjustment may be adjusted or terminated upon
−Removed: mutual agreement of Dr.
−Removed: Deller and the Company.
−Removed: The Agreement may be terminated by the Company for cause, as defined in the Agreement,
−Removed: Deller’s death or disability, upon 30 days’
−Removed: notice to Dr.
−Removed: Deller or as a result of a change in control,
−Removed: as defined in the Agreement.
−Removed: With the exception of a termination for cause, if Dr.
−Removed: Deller’s employment is terminated by the
−Removed: Company, aside from accrued but unpaid salary, bonus (if any) and business expenses, Dr.
−Removed: Deller will receive the balance of the unpaid
−Removed: Relocation Adjustment and six months of his annual salary.
−Removed: On January 10, 2021 the Company awarded 510,000 unvested incentive
−Removed: options to Dr.
−Removed: The right to exercise these option shares vests upon the achievement of certain performance goals.
−Removed: As each of these
−Removed: various performance goals is met, a portion of the award will vest and will be available for purchase from that date.
−Removed: During the years
−Removed: ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company paid Dr.
−Removed: Deller $34,000 and $33,000, respectively in Relocation Adjustment payments to reimburse
−Removed: temporary housing costs.
−Removed: From time to time the Company may become involved in various lawsuits
−Removed: and legal proceedings which arise in the ordinary course of business.
−Removed: Litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties and an adverse result
−Removed: in any such matter may harm the Company’s business.
−Removed: As of the date of these financial statements, the Company is not a party to
−Removed: any material pending legal proceedings.
+Added: There were no outstanding warrants at December 31, 2021.
+Added: Note 9 – Retirement Plan
+Added: The Company has a defined contribution retirement plan covering all of its employees whereby the Company matches employee contributions up to 3 % of each employee’s 2021 and 2020 earnings.
+Added: The Company’s matching contribution expense totaled $ 43 thousand and $ 51 thousand in 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: Note 10 – The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan
+Added: On May 8, 2020, the Company obtained a loan in the amount of $ 251 thousand (the “PPP loan”) from Bank of America (the “Lender”), pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economics Security Act (the “CARES Act”) that was signed into law in March 2020.
+Added: In accordance with the PPP, the Company was permitted to use the PPP loan proceeds to fund designated expenses, including certain payroll costs, rent, utilities, and other permitted expenses.
+Added: The PPP loan was evidenced by a promissory note, dated effective May 1, 2020, issued by the Company to the Lender.
+Added: The PPP loan was unsecured with a 2 -year term and bore interest at a rate of 1.00 % per annum.
+Added: The Company applied with the Small Business Administration, ("SBA") for loan forgiveness in January 2021.
+Added: Payments under this note were deferred by the Lender until the forgiveness status of the loan was ascertained.
+Added: In the second quarter of 2021, the Company received documentation from the SBA stating that this loan was forgiven in full.
+Added: As a result, the Company recorded a $ 251 thousand gain on forgiveness of debt and accrued interest during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: Note 11 – Commitments and Contingencies
+Added: From time to time the Company may become involved in various lawsuits and legal proceedings which arise in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: Litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties and an adverse result in any such matter may harm the Company’s business.
+Added: As of the date of this report, the Company is not a party to any material pending legal proceedings or claims that the Company believes will have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or operating results.
+Added: Investigation
+Added: On July 10, 2020, the Company received a letter from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) notifying the Company that FINRA was investigating trading in the Company’s securities surrounding the June 15, 2020 announcement that the Company had received a purchase order from ExxonMobil.
+Added: On April 1, 2021 the Company received a letter from FINRA stating that it had concluded its investigation without any findings.
Indemnification Agreements
−Removed: The Company maintains indemnification agreements with its directors
−Removed: and officers that may require the Company to indemnify these individuals against liabilities that arise by reason of their status or service
−Removed: as directors or officers, except as prohibited by law.
−Removed: Note 12 –
−Removed: Quarterly Results (unaudited)
−Removed: Quarterly results for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: are as follows:
+Added: The Company maintains indemnification agreements with our directors and officers that may require the Company to indemnify these individuals against liabilities that arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers, except as prohibited by law.
+Added: Note 12 – Quarterly Results (unaudited)
+Added: Quarterly results for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:
+Added: (in thousands, except per share data)
For the year ended December 31, 2021
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Net loss attributed to common stockholders
−Removed: $ (1,963,000 )
−Removed: $ (1,390,000 )
−Removed: $ (1,677,000 )
−Removed: $ (1,854,000 )
Net Loss per share - basic and fully diluted
3 unchanged sentences
Net loss attributed to common stockholders
−Removed: $ (2,329,000 )
−Removed: $ (2,426,000 )
−Removed: $ (2,108,000 )
−Removed: $ (1,616,000 )
Net Loss per share - basic and fully diluted
−Removed: Note 13 –
−Removed: Subsequent Events
−Removed: The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions that occurred
−Removed: after the balance sheet date up to date that the financial statements were issued.
−Removed: Other than as described in these financial statements,
−Removed: the Company did not identify any subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the financial statements.
−Removed: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING
−Removed: AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
+Added: Note 13 – Subsequent Events
+Added: The Company evaluates subsequent events and transactions that occur after the balance sheet date up to date that the financial statements are issued.
+Added: Subsequent to the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company raised an additional $ 602 thousand in net proceeds from the ATM by issuing 496 thousand shares, prior to the close of business on March 29, 2022.
+Added: Other than events described in these consolidated financial statements, the Company did not identify any other subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure to the financial statements.
+Added: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
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