NOTE J – WARRANT LIABILITY

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Warrants to purchase a total of 623,834 and 835,014 shares of the Company’s common stock were outstanding as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021. 750,000 warrants were issued to founders in a private placement (the “Private Warrants”). Each of the Private Warrants entitles the registered holder to purchase one share of the Company’s common stock at a price of $11.50 per share. In the three months ended September 30, 2022, a warrant holder initiated a cashless exercise of 126,166 warrants for the purchase of shares of common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share (remaining term on exercised warrants at September 30, 2022 was 3.2 years) and we issued 47,867 shares of common stock based on the fair value at the date of exercise of $18.5306 per share. The remaining Private Warrants will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the fifth anniversary of the completion of the Merger, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.

The Private Warrants include provisions that affect the settlement amount. Such variables are outside of those used to determine the fair value of a fixed-for-fixed instrument, and as such, the warrants do not meet the criteria for equity treatment under guidance contained in ASC Topic 815, “Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed to, and Potentially Settled in a Company’s Own Stock.” The Company classifies the Private Warrants as a liability at their fair value subject to re-measurement at each balance sheet date and adjusted at each reporting period until exercised or expired, and any change in fair value is recognized in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations. The fair value of the Private Warrants as of September 30, 2021 was determined using the market price of the Company’s public warrants adjusted for their lack of liquidity. Effective December 29, 2021 all public warrants were redeemed on a cashless basis and ceased trading on Nasdaq. As a result, the Black-Scholes option pricing model was adopted. The following table represents the assumptions for the Black-Scholes option-pricing model used in determining the fair value of the Private Warrants as of September 30, 2022:

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The significant assumptions utilized in the Black-Scholes calculation consist of interest rate for U.S. Treasury Bonds, as published by the U.S. Federal Reserve, and expected volatility estimated using historical daily volatility of guideline public companies.

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The expense recognized in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations related to the change in fair value of warrant liability was $2.0 million and $1.9 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively. The expense recognized in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations related to the change in fair value of warrant liability was $2.1 million and $2.7 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, respectively.