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Commitments and Contingencies
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies Commitments and Contingencies
Operating Leases

The Company's lease on its Woburn, Massachusetts corporate office and manufacturing facilities (the “Woburn Lease”) extends through September 2025 at a monthly base rent of $13,846 and with a 5-year extension option. The Company's lease on its former corporate office in Waltham, Massachusetts (the "Waltham lease") extends through February 2022 at a current monthly rent of $41,074, subject to annual increase, and with a 5-year extension option. The Company is actively seeking to sublet the Waltham lease. At December 31, 2020, the Company carried an impairment reserve of $400,000 that reduced the right of use asset for idle facility costs.

The following is a maturity analysis of the annual undiscounted cash flows of the operating lease liabilities as of December 31, 2020:

2021$653,164 
2022247,347 
2023165,785 
2024165,785 
2025117,431 
Total minimum lease payments$1,349,512 
Weighted-average discount rate, 14.7%
$288,470 
Lease obligation, current portion599,632 
Lease obligation, net of current portion 461,410 
$1,349,512 

Total recorded rent expense was $667,618 and $664,098, for 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company records rent expense on its facility leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Weighted average remaining operating lease term was 3.0 years as of December 31, 2020.
Other ContingenciesA previously reported investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) regarding Quell® advertising was settled in March 2020. The Company did not admit to any of the FTC allegations, agreed to certain modifications of Quell advertising claims, and pledged to pay to the FTC future commercial milestone payments, if and when received, pursuant to a collaboration agreement with a third party. An officer of the Company, also named in the investigation, paid the FTC four million dollars as part of the settlement.