Nvidia Settles Trade Secrets Case Over Engineer Who Stole Data

Nvidia Corp. settled a lawsuit involving a former engineer who had inadvertently revealed autonomous driving trade secrets that he stole from a previous employer.

The accord between the Silicon Valley artificial intelligence giant and a German unit of Paris-based Valeo SE was disclosed in a filing in federal court in San Jose, California. No details of the agreement were provided. A trial set for next month was canceled.

The companies were working together on a technology project for Mercedes-Benz when one of Valeo’s engineers defected to Nvidia in 2021. During a video conference, Valeo employees recognized their company’s verbatim source ...