You can file a provisional patent, which gives you the ability to discuss your innovation in public without compromising your full patent filing. It gives you a year to file a full patent for the invention, and it's much cheaper than a full patent, but does not necessarily protect your IP. That's what I did in the hopes I can get enough traction and capital to file a full one. Otherwise I would just consider the IP a trade secret and not disclose.
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