Patent ID: 8669195

Claim:
A fabric having a woven construction, including in its woven construction a plurality of spaced first elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibers and a plurality of spaced second elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibers, said first elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibers being crossed by said second elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibers at a plurality of crossover points, wherein said plurality of crossover points consists of at least one instance of a crossover point at which the first and second electrically conductive filaments or fibers are permanently biased apart and at least one instance of a crossover point at which said corresponding first and second electrically conductive filaments or fibers are permanently physically connected together, wherein said permanently connected crossover points and said permanently biased apart crossover points bring into being at least one conductive path within said fabric that is composed of two or more contiguous segments of two or more electrically conductive filaments or fibers, the conductive path being arranged in series in a serpentine manner.