Patent ID: 7199471

Claim:
An apparatus comprising an integrated circuit which includes: an insulating layer; and a group of at least two elongate runs which are electrically conductive, which are electrically separate from each other, which each extend approximately in a direction, and which each have along the length thereof alternating first and second portions that are electrically coupled by third portions, said first portions of said runs being located on a side of said insulating layer opposite from said second portions thereof, and said third portions having sections which extend through said insulating layer; wherein for substantially each point along each of said first and second portions of each of said runs, a plane perpendicular to said direction and containing that point intersects a respective different point of every other said run, each pair of adjacent said points in said plane being points which are respectively located on opposite sides of said insulating layer, and further wherein at least one of said first portions of each said runs crosses over one of said second portions of another of said runs.