Filing a US provisional application requires a written description detailed enough to support the invention later, plus the USPTO's provisional filing fee, which is around $325 for large entities, $130 for small entities and $65 for micro entities. A thin provisional gives weak protection, since it only covers what's actually disclosed in it.
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