NOTE 10 — LEASES

Operating leases — The Company leases its office space under operating leases with unrelated entities.

The Company leases 21,293 square feet of office space for our headquarters in Torrance, California, at a base rental of $83,365 per month, which lease will expire on September 30, 2026. The Company also leases an additional 1,850 square feet office space in New York, New York, at a base rent of $8,908, which lease will expire on January 31, 2023. In addition, the Company leases 1,322 square feet of office space in Tokyo, Japan, which lease will expire on September 30, 2022 and 1,163 square feet of office space in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which lease will expire on June 19, 2023.

The rent expense during the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 was $303,000 and $301,000, respectively.

Future minimum lease payments were as follows as of March 31, 2022 (in thousands):

As of March 31, 2022, the Company had an operating lease right-of-use asset of $3.3 million and lease liability of $3.8 million. The weighted average remaining term of the Company’s leases as of March 31, 2022 was 4.4 years and the weighted-average discount rate was 12.0%.