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ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

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ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
Overview
     Resonant Inc. is a late-stage development company located in Austin, Texas, with offices in Goleta, California, Burlingame, California, and Anyang, South Korea.  We were incorporated in Delaware in January 2012 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Superconductor Technologies Inc., or STI. Resonant LLC, a limited liability company, was formed in California in May 2012. We changed our form of ownership from a limited liability company to a corporation in an exchange transaction in June 2013, when we commenced business. We are the successor of Resonant LLC.  We completed our initial public offering, or IPO, on May 29, 2014. On July 6, 2016 we acquired all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of GVR Trade S.A, or GVR. GVR, located in Switzerland, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Resonant Inc. The Company operates in one market and segment, the radio frequency design industry.

     The innovative software platform we continue to develop is based on fundamentally new technology, that we call WaveX™, to configure and connect resonators, the building blocks of radio frequency (RF) filters. Currently, we are leveraging WaveX™ to develop designs targeted for either the Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) or Temperature Compensated, Surface Acoustic Wave (TC-SAW) manufacturing processes. We also enabled WaveX™ for Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) designs, which has resulted in our invention of a novel resonator structure based on a combination of interdigital transducer (IDT) and piezoelectric layer, XBAR®, which exhibits performance parameters suitable for 5G, 5-7GHz WiFi and Ultra Wideband applications - high frequency operation, large bandwidth and high power reliability.     
    Using WaveX™ we have developed an IP portfolio of more than 385 patents filed or issued, with more than 235 filed or issued targeting XBAR®, 5G and high frequency WiFi applications. In addition, with continued requirements for increasing numbers of filter designs our innovative software platform addresses the need for increased designer efficiency, reduced time to market and lower unit costs in the designs of filters for radio frequency, or RF Front-Ends for the mobile device, Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and Infrastructure industries.  The RF Front-End, or RFFE, is the circuitry responsible for analog signal processing and is located between the device’s antenna and its digital circuitry. Filters are a critical component of the RFFE used to select desired radio frequency signals and reject unwanted signals. 
    We believe licensing our designs is the most direct and effective means of validating our IP and IP related libraries and demonstrating the power and accuracy of our WaveX™ multi-physics electronic design automation (EDA) platform.  Our target customers make part, or all of, the RFFE. We intend to retain ownership of our intellectual property (IP), trade secrets and designs, and we expect to be compensated through license fees and royalties either prepaid at contract inception or based on sales of RFFE filters that incorporate our IP, trade secrets and designs.
Capital Resources and Liquidity
    As of September 30, 2021, our accumulated deficit totaled $177.8 million. In the nine months ended September 30, 2021 our net loss totaled $26.9 million and we used $21.9 million of cash for operating activities, the purchase of property and equipment and expenditures for patents. To date we have not generated significant revenues to enable profitability. We expect to continue to incur significant losses. These factors raise substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern. At September 30, 2021 we had cash and cash equivalents of $15.3 million and accounts receivable of $4.3 million. Subsequent to September 30, 2021, but prior to the publication of the financial statements on this Form 10-Q, we raised $6.1 million of cash from sales of common stock using our At-The-Market Equity Offering Sales Agreement. In the absence of additional customer contracts, we believe these cash resources, along with anticipated cash generated from existing customer contracts, will provide sufficient funding into the fourth quarter of 2022. We are subject to the risks and uncertainties associated with a new business. We also have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic which has added additional risks and uncertainties. Our continuance as a going concern is dependent on our future profitability. We are actively pursuing expanding our technology portfolio, increasing our revenue opportunities by completing deliverables under current customer contracts and entering into new customer contracts, and efficiently managing operations and exploring cost saving opportunities. We may not be successful in these efforts. We may need to seek to raise additional capital from the sale of equity securities or incurrence of indebtedness. There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all in which case we might be forced to make substantial reductions in our operating expenses which could adversely affect our ability to implement our business plan and ultimately our viability as a company. Even if available, such capital may be dilutive to existing stockholders. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. The condensed
consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.