Anders Håkan Lans (born 2 November 1947 in Enskede) is a Swedish inventor, employed by the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOA), and then Stockholm University[1] whose primary contribution is the Self-Organized Time Division Multiple Access (STDMA) datalink technology used in Automatic Identification System (AIS) for vehicle navigation.
Håkan Lans is the designer of a tracking system which makes use of a Self-Organized Time Division Multiple Access (STDMA) datalink.
STDMA is also in use as one of the three physical layer models proposed for Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), a cooperative surveillance technique for air traffic control.
[8] Lans holds a patent on a memory controller for a framebuffer: "Data processing system and apparatus for color graphics display".
[8] Lans received the award Inventor of the Year in Sweden in 1990, the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' gold medal in 1993, The International Seatrade Award in 1993, the Polhem Prize in 1995, KTH's grand prize in 1996, the Flight Aerospace Industry Award in 1997, the Swedish Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics Thulin Medal in gold in 1999, was appointed the International Swede of the Year in 2000, was appointed an honorary doctor of technology at Uppsala University in 2001,[1] in 2002 received H. M. The King's Medal, 8th size with high blue ribbon and the André Prize from the Swedish Patent and Registration Office in 2003.