Patent ID: 7723618

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising a circuit board and a pair of traces on or in the circuit board, the pair of traces including a first trace and a second trace, the first trace including a first segment and a second segment continuously joined to the first segment, the first segment coinciding with a first longitudinal axis, the second trace including a first segment that runs alongside the first segment of the first trace, the second trace also including a second segment that runs alongside the second segment of the first trace, the second segment of the second trace continuously joined to the first segment of the second trace, the second segment of the second trace coinciding with the first longitudinal axis; wherein: the first segment of the second trace coincides with a second longitudinal axis, said second longitudinal axis parallel to said first longitudinal axis and shifted from said first longitudinal axis by a first distance in a first direction that is perpendicular to said first longitudinal axis; the second segment of the first trace coincides with a third longitudinal axis, said third longitudinal axis parallel to said first longitudinal axis and shifted from said first longitudinal axis by a second distance in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, said second distance equal to said first distance; the first trace includes a third segment continuously joined to the second segment of the first trace, the third segment coinciding with a fourth longitudinal axis, said fourth longitudinal axis parallel to said third longitudinal axis and shifted from said third longitudinal axis by a third distance in said second direction, said third distance equal to said second distance; and the second trace includes a third segment continuously joined to the second segment of the second trace and running alongside the third segment of the first trace, the third segment of the second trace coinciding with said third longitudinal axis.