An innovative 12-year-old patented an app he recently created called "Save Me Pro."
Dylan Puccetti's Android app is essentially a virtual panic button. If a phone has the app installed, if the user is in danger all they have to do is push the power button six times to send a discreet message for help.
"If I was getting abducted and I have my phone in my pocket, all I have to do is reach down and press the power button," Puccetti explains to KHOU.
Through the app you can preset a message that will be sent to a parent or person of choice when you are in trouble. The app is free, but for a $0.99 upgrade a GPS map marking the person in danger's exact location will be sent as well.
"I hope it will save somebody's life," Puccetti tells KHOU.
The young boy was inspired to invent the app after hearing his dad, Michael Puccetti, talk about Jessica Cain, a teen who disappeared in 1997. His dad was friends with Cain's family.
Puccetti suggests that if Cain had had an emergency alert button on her phone she may not still be gone.
This app is the young inventor's second design to be patented. He designed a device that helps young baseball players learn how to pitch when he was in fifth grade.
