Patent ID: 8618893

Claim:
A transmission medium comprising: a plurality of inductive couplers; a plurality of signal lines, wherein each signal line of the plurality of signal lines is configured to respectively receive a corresponding one of a plurality of input signals, and wherein each signal line of the plurality of signal lines extends through at least one of the plurality of inductive couplers, and wherein each signal line of the plurality of signal lines is configured to inductively transmit the corresponding one of the plurality of input signals respectively received by the signal line to the at least one of the inductive couplers; and a plurality of conductors, wherein each conductor of the plurality of conductors is configured to extend through at least two of the plurality of inductive couplers, and wherein the plurality of conductors comprise a first conductor and a second conductor, wherein the plurality of inductive couplers are configured to inductively transmit the plurality of input signals to the plurality of conductors to generate a first current and a second current, the first current flows in the first conductor towards an output of the first conductor, the second current flows in the second conductor towards an input of the second conductor, one of the plurality of signal lines extends through each of a plurality of the inductive couplers once and in a same direction to induce current in the plurality of conductors, and the plurality of the inductive couplers surround different ones of the plurality of conductors.