Status: IN
Factory Method is the foundational creational pattern in the GoF catalog: it underlies Abstract Factory implementations, appears inside Template Methods, and creates appropriate iterators for aggregates — making it the most pervasive creational mechanism.
Factory Method appears as a building block inside three other patterns
Depends on (SL): abstract-factory-often-uses-factory-methods, factory-method-called-within-template-methods, iterator-factory-method-creates-appropriate-iterator