Amazon's apparel manufacturing patent can be summed up as follows:
- P1: Grouping apparel customer orders by products and sizes. This process is around since the origins of industrial apparel manufacturing centuries ago.
- P2: Automatically cutting lays (such as cutting a circle in several pieces of paper at the same time).
- P3: Moving the packs of the parts of clothing to the assembly lines on conveyor belts (see Chapter 11, Conceptual Representation Learning).
- P4: Other operations depending on the products (packaging or printing or other).
- P5: Storing and optimizing the distribution process through warehouses and deliveries and many more processes (tracking and data analysis, for example, finding late deliveries ...