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Description of Business and Summary of Accounting Principles
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Description of Business and Summary of Accounting Principles  
Description of Business and Summary of Accounting Principles
1.Description of Business and Summary of Accounting Principles

Monogram Technologies Inc. (“Monogram” or the “Company”), was incorporated in the state of Delaware on April 21, 2016. On May 15, 2024, the Company changed its name from “Monogram Orthopaedics Inc.” to “Monogram Technologies Inc.”. Monogram is an AI-driven robotics company focused on improving human health, with an initial focus on orthopedic surgery. The Company is developing a next-generation autonomous (also “active”) surgical robot to enable placement of patient optimized orthopedic implants, aiming to leverage advanced machine vision, augmented reality and machine learning (“AI”). The Company’s AI capabilities are largely developed internally using static datasets, while certain R&D efforts integrate externally sourced AI to complement its proprietary technology. The Company has a robot prototype that can autonomously execute specialized paths for high precision insertion of implants in simulated cadaveric surgeries. Monogram intends to produce and market robotic surgical equipment and related software, orthopaedic implants, tissue ablation tools, navigation consumables, and other miscellaneous instrumentation necessary for reconstructive joint replacement procedures.

The Company has obtained 510(k) clearances for certain implants and has made 510(k) premarket notification submissions but has not yet obtained 510(k) premarket clearances for any of robotic products. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) premarket clearance is required to market our robotic products, and the Company cannot estimate the timing, or assure our ability, to obtain such clearances.

Basis of Presentation

The financial statements are presented in United States dollars and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Certain reclassifications to prior year financial statements have been made to conform with the current year presentation.

Use of Estimates

In preparing financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, 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. The Company’s most significant estimates relate to the fair value of the warrant liability, valuations of stock-based compensation, the income tax valuation allowance, and the Mount Sinai settlement contingency described in Note 11. On a continual basis, management reviews its estimates, utilizing currently available information, changes in facts and circumstances, historical experience and reasonable assumptions. After such reviews, and if deemed appropriate, those estimates are adjusted accordingly. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company may maintain cash balances that exceed federally insured limits.

Account Receivable

At December 31, 2023, the Company had one account receivable related to the sale of a single unit of robotic surgical equipment. This receivable was uncollateralized and recorded at its original cost. The Company estimated the expected credit loss associated with this single receivable approximated $0 and therefore, the allowance for expected credit losses was $0 at December 31, 2023. In early 2024, the Company collected the full balance due from this customer.

Equipment

Equipment expenditures, including purchased software, are recorded at cost. Costs which extend the useful lives or increase the productivity of an asset are capitalized, while normal repairs and maintenance that do not extend the useful life or increase the productivity of an asset are expensed as incurred. Equipment, including the Company’s robotic equipment, and purchased software are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the five-year estimated useful life of these assets.

Leases

Operating lease right of use assets represent a right for the Company to use underlying assets during the term of its leases. Operating lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligations to make lease payments under its lease agreements. On the commencement date of a lease, the Company recognizes an operating lease right of use asset and corresponding liability at amounts equal to the present value of the future lease payments. To calculate present value, the Company applied a risk-free discount rate, determined on the date the lease commenced using a period comparable with that of the lease term, that materially approximated the Company’s estimated incremental borrowing rate. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

The Company does not recognize a right of use asset or corresponding lease liability for any lease that, at the commencement date, has a term of 12 months or less and does not include an option to renew the lease or purchase the underlying asset that the Company is reasonably certain to exercise. Instead, the total cash payments due under a short-term lease are expensed on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

Long-Lived Assets

Long-lived assets, such as equipment and intangible assets, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. If circumstances require a long-lived asset or asset group be tested for possible impairment, the Company first compares undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by that asset or asset group to its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of the long-lived asset or asset group is determined to not be recoverable on an undiscounted cash flow basis, an impairment is recognized to the extent the carrying amount exceeds its fair value. The Company did not experience any impairment of its long-lived assets in 2024 or 2023.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue is recognized when promised products and services are transferred to the customer. The amount of revenue recognized reflects both the fixed and variable consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for these products and services. In general, the Company applies the following five-step model when evaluating the amount and timing of revenue recognition in its customer contracts:

Step 1 - Identify the contract(s) with a customer

Step 2 - Identify the performance obligations in the contract

Step 3 - Determine the transaction price

Step 4 - Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations

Step 5 - Recognize revenue when (or as) performance obligations are satisfied

The Company has not yet begun its principal operations. Revenue recognized during the year ended December 31, 2023 related to the sale of a single unit of robotic surgical equipment that was recognized when control of the equipment was transferred to the customer. Since the Company originally expensed this equipment as research and development costs when it was built, no costs of goods sold were recognized when this equipment was sold in 2023.

Stock-based Compensation

The Company measures and records the expense related to stock-based compensation awards based on the fair value of those awards as determined on the date of grant. The Company recognizes stock-based compensation expense over the requisite service period of the individual grant, generally equal to the vesting period, and uses the straight-line method to recognize the related stock-based compensation. The Company uses the Black-Scholes-Merton (“Black-Scholes”) option-pricing model to determine the fair value of stock awards. The Black-Scholes option-pricing model requires the use of highly subjective and complex assumptions, including the estimated fair value and price volatility of the Company’s common stock and the expected term of the option.

Marketing and Advertising Costs

Marketing and advertising costs are expensed as incurred.

Research and Development Costs

Research and development costs primarily include salaries and benefits, including stock-based compensation charges, of employees performing research and development activities, as well as costs incurred by third-party contractors delivering research and development products and services to the Company. Research and development costs are expensed as incurred.

Included in research and development are costs incurred by the Company to develop software that will be an integral component of the Company’s robotic products. Because this software has not yet met the technological feasibility criteria in Accounting Standards Codification Topic 985-20, “Software - Costs of Software To Be Sold, Leased, or Marketed”, costs incurred by the Company to develop this software are expensed as incurred.

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income and the reversal of deferred tax liabilities during the period in which related temporary differences become deductible. A valuation allowance has been established to eliminate the Company’s deferred tax assets as it is more likely than not that none of the deferred tax assets will be realized.

The Company recognizes the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position 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 merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the financial statements from such a position are measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon settlement with the tax authorities. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs. The Company records interest related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and penalties in income tax expense. The Company has determined that it had no significant uncertain tax positions requiring recognition or disclosure.

Earnings (Loss) Per Share

Earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income or loss by the weighted-average number of common stock shares outstanding. To the extent that stock options, warrants, and convertible preferred stock are anti-dilutive, they are excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings (loss) per share. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company excluded the following shares from the calculation of diluted loss per share because such amounts were antidilutive:

    

2024

    

2023

Shares issuable upon conversion of Series D Preferred Stock

 

4,361,249

 

Shares issuable upon exercise of warrants

 

5,773,979

 

547,944

Shares issuable upon exercise of stock options

 

4,990,827

 

4,904,266

Total

 

15,126,055

 

5,452,210

Segment Reporting

The Company has not yet begun generating revenue from its planned principal operations and operates as a single reportable segment. The chief operating decision maker is the Company’s chief executive officer who assesses performance based on total expenses, cash flows, and progress made in the Company’s ongoing development efforts. All of the Company’s long-lived assets are located in the United States.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards could have a material effect on the accompanying financial statements. As new accounting pronouncements are issued, we will adopt those that are applicable under the circumstances.