wp-includes/class-wp-theme-json.php:3817Returns the current theme's wanted patterns(slugs) to be registered from Pattern Directory.
string[] public function get_patterns() { if ( isset( $this->theme_json['patterns'] ) && is_array( $this->theme_json['patterns'] ) ) { return $this->theme_json['patterns']; } return array(); }Introduced in 6.0.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/class-wp-theme-json.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.