The phrase "in different patterns" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to indicate that something can take on various forms or shapes. For example, you could say: "The leaves scattered across the ground were arranged in different patterns."
It may be as part of a training programme where barefoot running helps with adaptation because it loads the joints differently, activates muscles in different patterns and therefore provides a good training impulse.
The final step is to argue that this difference must consist in different patterns of bilocation.
These potential differences could result in different patterns of infection in Korean KT patients.
The Moment wristband vibrates in different patterns to convey information with less distraction.
Bone metastases from renal cell carcinoma (RCC) can present in different patterns.
The software allowed them to choose to have the robot drop the oatmeal in different patterns.
The winds blew in different patterns as a result, driving the oceans in different directions.
The cork fabric comes in different patterns -- geometrics and abstracts -- and in different colors, including blue, red, brown, silver and gold.
That was partly the product of Simon's cleverness, but it also reflected the fact that, like many outstanding columnists, he thought in different patterns from conventional people.
Developers of OvaCheck said that though different machines and sample preparation techniques resulted in different patterns, the computer could figure out how to discriminate cancer from noncancer.
He plans to use other abstract elements, like big flowers, again on sticks, which his troupe will arrange in different patterns.
