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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE C - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Sanovas

 

The Company is related to Sanovas through common ownership and management. Sanovas Opthalmology is a majority owned subsidiary of Sanovas and Jerry Katzman, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, is also a director of Sanovas Ophthalmology and in such capacity has the right to vote and dispose of the securities held by such entity. Jerry Katzman is also the Chief Executive Officer of Sanovas.

 

Commencing in 2019, Sanovas began paying expenses on behalf of the Company, and began allocating a portion of expenses and infrastructure costs to the Company and other entities where Sanovas was performing shared services. Included in such allocated costs is approximately $662,000 and $630,000 in costs related to an officer of the Company, whose salary is through an employment agreement with Sanovas, in the years ending December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

 

 

The following summarizes the transactions between the Company and Sanovas for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:

 

   2025   2024 
   Year ended 
   December 31,   December 31, 
   2025   2024 
         
Balance due to Sanovas – beginning of period  $15,709   $2,760 
           
Costs of Sanovas allocated to the Company   661,500    654,300 
Retirement of due to Sanovas through the issuance of shares to Sanovas Ophthalmology   -    (666,000)
Cash advances from Sanovas to the Company, net   (2,367)   24,649 
           
Balance due to Sanovas - end of period  $674,842   $15,709 

 

The Company issued 296,000 shares of its common stock to Sanovas to offset amounts due to Sanovas for payment of expenses on behalf of the Company of $666,000 in December 2024. No such offset occurred during the year ended December 31, 2025.

 

Sublicense

 

On September 24, 2021, the Company entered into a sublicense agreement (“Sublicense Agreement”) with Sanovas Ophthalmology pursuant to which Sanovas Ophthalmology granted the Company an exclusive worldwide (“Territory”) license to certain intellectual property licensed to Sanovas Ophthalmology by Sanovas Intellectual Property LLC relating to certain technologies for eye and ocular visualization and monitoring (“Licensed IP”) for uses related to the screening, examination, diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of any eye disease, medical condition or disorder, or any disease, medical condition or disorder affecting the eye. Pursuant to the Sublicense Agreement, commencing on the date of the first commercial sale of a Licensed Product (as defined in the Sublicense Agreement), in each country in the Territory and continuing on a country by country basis until the expiration or termination of the last Valid Claim (as defined in the Sublicense Agreement) of a licensed patent in such country (the “Royalty End Date”), the Company is obligated to pay Sanovas Ophthalmology a royalty equal to a mid-single digit percentage of any Net Sales (as defined in the Sublicense Agreement) of any Licensed Product. The Sublicense Agreement continues until the Royalty End Date, unless earlier terminated pursuant to its terms. The Sublicense Agreement may be terminated by either party if the other party materially breaches the Sublicense Agreement in a manner that cannot be cured, or materially breaches the Sublicense Agreement in a manner that can be cured and such breach remains uncured for more than 30 days after the receipt by the breaching party of notice specifying the breach. Furthermore, the Company may terminate the Sublicense Agreement at any time upon 90 days written notice to Sanovas Ophthalmology. No royalties have been paid through December 31, 2025 under this Sublicense Agreement.

 

Due to affiliates

 

From time to time, an officer of the Company, a shareholder of the Company and other related parties advanced funds or paid expenses on behalf of the Company. There is no formal notes or repayment plan for such advances. At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had received an aggregate of $489,224 and $467,793, respectively, pursuant to such advances.

 

Shareholders’ notes payable – See Note G