Patent ID: 6951978

Claim:
A conductive fabric, comprising: a) a plurality of conductive elements defining an alternating sequence of segments and cross-over regions, the segments including a pair of reference segments; b) within each of said segments, said conductive elements being arranged substantially in parallel; c) within each of said cross-over regions located between two adjacent segments, said conductive elements being permuted so as to allow the position occupied by at least one of said conductive elements to be different in each of the two adjacent segments; d) between the pair of reference segments, each of said conductive elements experiencing coupling with respect to at least one of said conductive elements other than itself; and e) the coupling experienced by each of said conductive elements being substantially identical; wherein, for a particular one of the conductive elements, the subset of said conductive elements other than the particular one of the conductive elements includes, for each segment between and including the pair of reference segments, the portion of each conductive element occupying a position adjacent to that of the particular one of said conductive elements.