The methods in an abstract factory pattern are factory methods and both of these design patterns are used to decouple the implementation classes using abstract types and also factories.

In essence, the Abstract Factory design pattern is used to create a factory of factories. In the Abstract Factory design pattern, the consumer invokes the Factory methods to create the objects.

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